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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…

The fact is that manipulating individual cells is a difficult task. Some work has been done on so-called optical tweezers that can push cells around with beams of light, but while they are good at moving a single cell around, they are not…

Researchers in Caltech's Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering have made a major step forward in medical imaging by taking inspiration from the field of astronomy.The paper describing this research was published in…

Caltech researchers have developed a new at-home test for COVID-19 that is more than twice as sensitive as current state-of-the-art antigen tests. While the test was developed for COVID-19, the technology can be used as a platform for…

From February 24-26, Caltech welcomed over 70 families of first-year students to campus for Family Weekend, a three-day annual event that offers an in-person sampling of the undergraduate student experience.On Saturday morning, the "Life…