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Every year, more than 795,000 people experience having a stroke, often resulting in brain damage that impairs their ability to speak, walk, or perform tasks. Fortunately, in many cases, these abilities can be regained through physical…

Carver Mead (BS '56, PhD '60), Caltech's Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, has been honored with a lifetime contribution award by the jury that confers the Misha Mahowald Prizes for Neuromorphic…

The nucleus of each of your cells contains all the genetic information (the genome) necessary to build every type of cell and protein in your entire body. Like a complex library in a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a…

Two Caltech professors, Thomas Y. Hou and Jonas C. Peters, have been elected amongst the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this year. Membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors a scientist can…

No crystal ball is needed to envision a future that engineers have in mind, one in which air taxis and other flying vehicles ferry passengers between urban locations, avoiding the growing gridlock on the ground below. Companies are…

William M. (Bil) Clemons, Jr., the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, and Edward (Ned) Ruby, faculty associate in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, have been elected to the American Academy…

In March, "Parable of the Pathmakers," an Afrofuturist multimedia dance performance, opened a portal into the minds and legacies of Pasadena-born science-fiction author Octavia Butler and Caltech's first Black graduate, Grant D.…

Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn's gravitational pull and deforms from a spherical shape into a football shape and back again. This cyclic stress causes a phenomenon called "tidal…

Two Caltech seniors, Lucas Abounader and Hannah Fisher, have won Fulbright scholarships for the 2024–25 academic year and will be pursuing graduate study in Italy and Germany, respectively. Another Caltech senior, Andrew Pasco, has…

For decades, researchers believed that lamprey—eel-like jawless fish—did not have sympathetic neurons, which are a part of the peripheral nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is made up of nerves that target internal organs…