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The Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics has now taken up residence on the 8th floor of Caltech Hall and is hosting the American Institute for Mathematics.The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) has been offering…

Michael Roukes, Caltech's Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, has been awarded the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Director's Transformative Research Award.This award, granted to only six…

In art, the negative space in a painting can be just as important as the painting itself. Something similar is true in insulating materials, where the empty spaces left behind by missing electrons play a crucial role in determining the…

Imagine if you could try your hand at Caltech research for six weeks. In the Hybrid Summer Research Connection (HSRC), high school students and teachers do just that, experiencing campus and conducting studies with researchers at the top…

For the first time, scientists have induced asexual reproduction in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Once induced, the ability is passed on through the generations: the offspring can…

Picture a typical day at the Port of Long Beach. Shipping containers are plucked from cargo ships and slid onto semitrucks that will carry the contents to their ultimate destination, whether that is in the Los Angeles metropolitan area or…

For those who dream of building a base on the moon, a major engineering challenge is figuring out how to move rovers, ice, and other cargo across treacherous terrain and out of steep, jagged lunar craters.“Most of the lunar base scenarios…

In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the state, providing people with internet. But these underground cables can also have a surprising secondary function: they can sense and measure earthquakes. In a new…

American businesses from chipmakers to hospitals say they need more employees with strong educations in the sciences, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Federal data suggests this STEM-worker shortage is also slowing the…

Caltech physicists, engineers, and other faculty and students across campus soon will be able to come together in a collaborative, state-of-the-art space designed specifically to inspire and enable breakthroughs in quantum science and…