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Electrons—those little subatomic particles that help make up the atoms in our bodies and the electricity flowing through your phone or computer right now—have some properties like mass and charge that will be familiar to anyone who has…

More than 5,000 exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars beyond our sun, have been spotted over the last 30 years, and discoveries from space and ground-based telescopes continue to roll in. The planets come in many sizes and compositions…

New Caltech research is showing how devices implanted into people's brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak. In a new study presented at the 2022 Society for…

Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)—creating a cohesive final product capable of…

More than 150 people, including Caltech leaders, alumni, students, faculty, and employees, along with other members of the local community, gathered on Thursday, November 17, to formally dedicate the Lee F. Browne Dining Hall, Caltech's…

To celebrate the Caltech Seismological Laboratory's centennial, the Caltech Science Exchange, in collaboration with the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, will host a public event that explores the science behind onscreen…

Caltech's leaders, alumni, students, faculty, employees and other members of the local community gathered on Friday, October 21 on the Olive Walk along with the family of Grant D. Venerable (BS '32) for the dedication of Grant D.…

The microbial world shapes essentially every facet of our lives. Whether they are in the soils where our food is grown, or the lungs of a person with an infection, or at the bottom of the ocean, microbes live in diverse communities made…

Professor of Physics and Rosenberg Scholar Manuel Endres and Professor of Physics David Hsieh are each receiving grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of a new initiative to fund experimental physics investigators. The…

For the past 175 years, a perplexing feature of numbers first stumbled upon by German mathematician Ernst Kummer has confounded researchers. At one point in the 1950s, this quirky feature of number theory was thought to have been wrong,…