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On June 7, at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in the forested mountain outside San Diego, members of the Pauma band of indigenous peoples gathered to celebrate the naming of the first known asteroid to circle entirely within the orbit of…

Launched from a rocket strapped to the belly of an aircraft on June 13, 2012, NASA's NuSTAR mission is celebrating 10 years in space. The mission, which detects high-energy X-rays, has made numerous discoveries over the years about…

Whatever you are doing, whether it is driving a car, going for a jog, or even at your laziest, eating chips and watching TV on the couch, there is an entire suite of molecular machinery inside each of your cells hard at work. That…

A new artificial skin developed at Caltech can now give robots the ability to sense temperature, pressure, and even toxic chemicals through a simple touch.This new skin technology is part of a robotic platform that integrates the…

The Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID) recently honored 10 campus leaders, each nominated by members of the Institute community, at its annual Celebration of Excellence award ceremony."We are honored and excited to…

This result provides conclusive evidence that the body, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced "sadge-ay-star"), is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such massive objects, which are thought to reside…

More than 5,000 middle school and high school students representing 120 student teams will compete this weekend in the 38th Annual National Science Olympiad Tournament hosted virtually by Caltech.To arrive at the national competition, the…

Engineers at companies like Intel who design and build chipsets and microprocessors must manipulate components at impossibly small scales. Axel Scherer, Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering; professor of medical Engineering, Applied…

A team of engineers led by Caltech's Alireza Marandi recently opened a new frontier in topological physics, which is the field that seeks to understand the topological properties that arise in coupled systems based on how they are…

UnRavelled, a play that tells the true story of a scientist turned painter who became captivated by the works of composer Maurice Ravel, with whom she shared a neurodegenerative disorder, will be performed as a staged reading on the…