Caltech

Michael M. Watkins, professor of aerospace and geophysics, and a former director of JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, is one of 111 new members and 22 international members elected to the academy this year. Election to the NAE is…

Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around each other every two years. The two giant bodies each have masses that are hundreds of millions of times larger than that…

Engineers at Caltech have developed an approach for quantum storage could help pave the way for the development of large-scale optical quantum networks.The new system relies on nuclear spins—the angular momentum of an atom's…

Julia McCallin, associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer, welcomed the recognition of Caltech, saying, "Our community makes Caltech a great place to work and study. Caltech is a caring and supportive…

The research was conducted primarily in the laboratory of Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology and affiliated faculty member with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech. A paper…

Awarded annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the awards "honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of…

The Cottrell Scholar Awards have been awarded by RCSA since 1994 and recognize early-career individuals for innovative research and teaching excellence. The awards are named after Frederick Gardner Cottrell, an inventor and philanthropist…

The findings, published in two separate papers in The Astronomical Journal, help paint a picture of how exotic worlds like these form and evolve.Mini-Neptunes are a class of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars outside our solar…

An analysis of large salt deposits on Mars indicates that ponds of liquid water existed on the Red Planet for about a billion years longer than previously believed.Hundreds of deposits of sodium chloride (table salt) stretching tens to…

Four Caltech professors, along with one principal staff member from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have been named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In total, 14 Caltech alumni were named as…