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Members of the Caltech community brought their whole selves to LA Pride. On June 9, postdocs, grad students, undergraduates, and staff marched alongside Caltech's very first float—themed "Space for Everyone"—as part of the 54th Annual LA…

For hundreds of years, the clarity and magnification of microscopes were ultimately limited by the physical properties of their optical lenses. Microscope makers pushed those boundaries by making increasingly complicated and expensive…

A team of astrophysicists led by Caltech has managed for the first time to simulate the journey of primordial gas dating from the early universe to the stage at which it becomes swept up in a disk of material fueling a single supermassive…

The final components of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), including its foundation, silver geodesic dome, and on-site buildings, have been removed from a valley atop Maunakea in Hawai‘i, and the land at the site has been…

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2024 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the first selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished…

"We are delighted that Sarah has agreed to serve as chair," said David Tirrell, Caltech's provost, the Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair, and the Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, in a…

Suresh also serves as Brown University Professor at Large, a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences, a member of the Board of Overseers of Koç University in Istanbul, and a member of the Board of Directors of…

Eleven Caltech students, staff, and faculty were honored along with community award recipient Sheldon Epps, artistic director emeritus of the Pasadena Playhouse. Awardees, as well as the colleagues who nominated them, reflected on…

"It was an honor to be selected among the rising stars and future leaders in the aerospace field for this privileged symposium," Simoes says. "This allowed us not only to present our research but also to engage with industry and…

Finding and transporting water is often difficult; ensuring its quality is a trickier task, especially in an era of climate change. On April 12 and 13, Caltech's Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) hosted a workshop…