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While some animals are known to consistently regenerate amputated body parts—certain flatworms even regrow their entire heads—none of the species in the study had ever been shown to regrow limbs after certain injuries. The work suggests…

"These tools could let you transform the electronic properties of materials at the flick of a light switch," says Caltech Professor of Physics David Hsieh. "But the technologies have been limited by the problem of the lasers creating too…

Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than fighting their way through them."When we want robots…

Crucially, they found a mechanism for predicting the production of the pollutant ozone—which, at the ground level, can create poor breathing conditions and also harm ecosystems. Also, the team found that mixing wildfire smoke with urban…

An ideal organism to address this question is the rove beetle. That is because many of the 64,000 species of rove beetle have evolved a unique type of organ to protect themselves: a chemical gland used to spray predators with toxic…

A major challenge, however, has been creating the right "delivery vehicles" that can carry genes and molecules into the cells that need treatment, while avoiding the cells that do not.Now, a team led by Caltech researchers has developed a…

"While the Institute's financial aid program does provide students with aid to support their college experience beyond just tuition and room and board, the funding can't be distributed until after they arrive," says Jarrid Whitney,…

Caltech has begun design of the laboratories, which will include 12,000 square feet ofbest-in-class experimental facilities. They are the first phase of a planned Center for Quantum Precision Measurement (CQPM) to front California…

Breakthrough techniques in neuroscience are generating enormous data sets, such as recordings of the activity of thousands of neurons over time, videos of complex animal behavior, and so on. But often, neuroscientists have not had formal…

Seven finalist teams, selected by NASA and provided with up to $180,000 in funding, have been working since February on a prototype solution to the challenge that lunar dust poses to any future moon habitat. Lunar dust is abrasive and…