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From the enigmatic HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the sentient machines that program reality in The Matrix, Hollywood has long been fascinated with the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, as these fictional narratives…

In this role, Lane will oversee many Institute-wide administrative functions, including management of Caltech's facilities, human resources, business and finance, audit and compliance, and information and management systems and services…

This is because chemotherapy drugs are toxic. They're meant to kill cancer cells by poisoning them, but since cancer cells derive from healthy cells and are substantially similar to them, it is difficult to create a drug that kills them…

Quenee recently served as the interim director of EH&S and will continue leading the Institute's environmental health and safety programs in an official capacity. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing comprehensive…

Now, the team has reinvented the technique to allow for printing objects a thousand times smaller: 150 nanometers, which is comparable to the size of a flu virus. In doing so, the team also discovered that the atomic arrangements within…

"It's a small telescope, but it gathers an enormous amount of light thanks to its very wide field of view," explains Stephen Padin, a research professor of physics at Caltech and member of the SPHEREx team. "This will be the first all-sky…

Because of its many functions, the hormone estradiol is often specifically monitored by physicians as part of women's health care, but this usually requires the patient to visit a clinic to have blood drawn for analysis in a lab. Even…

New results from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, or KCWI, which was designed by Caltech's Edward C. Stone Professor of Physics Christopher Martin and his team, are the first to show direct light emitted by the largest and most hidden portion…

Robert W. Conn (MS '65, PhD '68), president and CEO, emeritus, of the Kavli Foundation; UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering dean emeritus; Caltech distinguished alumnus; and fusion engineering innovator, will receive the Simon Ramo…

missile system, and a life member of the Caltech community. Among many other honors, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, the National Medal of Science in 1979, and the Founders Medal of the Institute of Electrical and…