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The grass stood waist high around Caltech second-year undergraduate Sophie Polidoro as she raised a metal pipe above her head and drove it a foot into the soil.Another student dropped a seedling tree into the hole, then patted the damp…

In recent years, the Los Angeles region—home to 9.8 million people—has experienced record-breaking heat waves and steadily increasing average temperatures due to climate change. While climate change is a global problem, its effects often…

Using a "spooky" phenomenon of quantum physics, Caltech researchers have discovered a way to double the resolution of light microscopes.In a paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications, a team led by Lihong Wang, Bren Professor…

For the first time, astronomers have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet whole. The sun-like star, called ZTF SLRN-2020, lies about 12,000 light-years away in our galaxy and is thought to have engulfed a hot gas giant about…

In August 1865, a 10-pound rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of Sherghati, India. After being recovered by witnesses to the event, the stone passed into the possession of a local British magistrate…

Jennifer Jahner, professor of English in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named Caltech's dean of undergraduate students, effective May 15.Jahner, who came to Caltech in 2012, has research interests that span…

Barbara Wold (PhD '78), Bren Professor of Molecular Biology and Director and Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair of the Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research, has been elected as a member of the…

David Van Valen (PhD '11), assistant professor of biology and biological engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, and Rebecca Voorhees, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering and Heritage…

In the latest advance in nano- and micro-architected materials, engineers at Caltech have developed a new material made from numerous interconnected microscale knots.The knots make the material far tougher than identically structured but…

A web app that connects users with local tailors to extend the lifespan of their clothes. A sustainability-focused news aggregator that uses AI to summarize articles. A machine learning model that predicts the most efficient locations to…