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Caltech has joined with 15 of the nation's most prominent universities and colleges in a new effort to help students from small-town and rural America enroll in, succeed at, and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice.The…

The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) America has announced that it is awarding its highest honor, the Perkin Medal, to Frances Arnold, Caltech's Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and…

A planet-spanning online image of Mars created at a scale of 5 meters per pixel was unveiled today. The image is freely available to the public and can be accessed online through Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary…

Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana, researchers at Caltech have parsed out the process by which these massive explosions blast potentially harmful energetic particles and X-rays into the cosmos.Corona loops are arches…

This year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected 50 current Caltech students and nine recent undergraduate alumni to receive its Graduate Research Fellowships. Those selected for a fellowship will receive support for three…

The Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID) recently hosted a panel discussion to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which took place on February 11. The panel, featuring three Caltech graduate students…

Caltech has announced the recipients of its two highest prizes recognizing outstanding teaching and mentorship.The 2022–23 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech's highest teaching prize, has been awarded to Lulu…

When two black holes collide into each other to form a new bigger black hole, they violently roil spacetime around them, sending ripples called gravitational waves outward in all directions. Previous studies of black hole collisions…

Nearly a decade ago, researchers heralded the discovery of a new wonder class of ultrathin materials with special optical and electrical properties that made it a potential rival for graphene, a form of carbon discovered in 2004 whose own…

When firefighters battle a blaze in a rugged, mountainous region, one of their biggest challenges is simply staying in touch. Their handheld radios often don't stay connected to each other, and many fire crews lack simple, off-the-shelf…