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Caltech honored more than 200 staff members—including two with 55 years of service and one with 50 years—at the 68th annual Staff Service & Impact Awards ceremony, held on June 8 in Beckman Auditorium.Julia McCallin, associate vice…

Astronomers have captured a bizarre image of a supernova, the powerful explosion of a star, whose light was so warped by the gravity of another galaxy that it appears as multiple images in the sky. This effect, known as gravitational…

A new instrument for studying a web of filaments that connects galaxies across the universe has captured its first image, a milestone known in astronomy as "first light." The Keck Cosmic Reionization Mapper (KCRM) at the W.M. Keck…

On May 12, Caltech hosted the inaugural Conference for Emerging Black Academics in STEM (CEBAS), organized by the Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech (BSEC) and the Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID).Scholars from…

For the last couple of years, the rapid at-home COVID tests that can identify an infection with a simple swab of the nose have been a mainstay of efforts to diagnose infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevent its spread.But what if…

During the 2022–23 academic year, Caltech recognized three faculty members with leadership chairs for distinguished administrative positions and 13 faculty members with named professorships for early career and tenured faculty — the…

"Change is manifest and inevitable, but it will not be powerful except in the context of our defining values."On June 16, Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum charged 617 graduates at the 129th Commencement ceremony to embrace both…

The Indian government has granted the final approvals necessary for construction to begin on LIGO-India, a nearly identical version of the twin LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) facilities that made history after…

Putting on your workout clothes and getting to the gym can feel like a slog at first. Eventually, you might get in the habit of going to the gym and readily pop over to your Zumba class or for a run on the treadmill. A new study from…

Anima Anandkumar, Caltech's Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech's Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical…