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Kimberly See, assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. The award is given to professors in the first five years of their academic career who have created "an outstanding independent body of…

Undergraduates Mohini Misra, Margaret Sui, Arielle Tycko, and Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan, as well as graduate student Zachary Sercel, have been selected to receive Fulbright scholarships.The U.S. Fulbright Program, created by the U.S.…

Today, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments and other improvements to boost the search for gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, generated by colliding black holes and…

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity describes how the fabric of space and time, or spacetime, is curved in response to mass. Our sun, for example, warps space around us such that planet Earth rolls around the sun like a marble…

For the first time since 2019, Caltech's Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID) hosted its annual Celebration of Excellence in person. The awards ceremony honors members of the Caltech community who exemplify leadership in advancing…

A space solar power prototype that was launched into orbit in January is operational and has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly transmit power in space and to beam detectable power to Earth for the first time.Wireless power transfer…

Caltech will disassemble the 34-foot diameter telescope mirror from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) on Maunakea and remove it in pieces this summer. The original plan to move it in one piece proved unfeasible."Caltech is…

Hours before Caltech materials science professor Chiara Daraio delivered a Watson Lecture on new materials that will allow garments to bring together the physical and digital worlds, six Los Angeles high school students explored her…

The never-ending quest for faster, smaller computers that can do more has led manufacturers to design ever tinier transistors that are now packed into computer chips by the tens of billions.And so far, this tactic has worked. Computers…

Philip Kocheril, who studies physical chemistry at Caltech, is one of 15 graduate students in the United States granted five years of sponsored graduate study by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Two additional 2023 Hertz fellows will…