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As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (Ultraviolet…

Four Caltech faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2024: Katie Bouman, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Lee McCuller, assistant…

Jellyfish can't do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don't even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can easily journey to the depths of the oceans in a way that humans, despite all our sophistication, cannot. But what if…

The NASA BIG Idea Challenge asks "student innovators to propose novel inflatable component and system concepts that could benefit future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond," and finalists receive funding to design, build, and…

For decades, scientists and pathologists have tried, without much success, to come up with a way to determine which individual lung cancer patients are at greatest risk of having their illness spread, or metastasize, to other parts of…

Nearly five years ago, a globe-spanning team of astronomers gave the world its first-ever glimpse of a black hole. Now the team has validated both their original findings and our understanding of black holes with a new image of the…

Speaking to a rapt audience in Beckman Auditorium on January 19, chemist André Isaacs paused to emphasize his key message: "You can't do good science if you leave aspects of who you are at the door." His remarks were part of…

As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (Ultraviolet…

Four Caltech faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2024: Katie Bouman, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Lee McCuller, assistant…

City dwellers have long had to contend with smog—that ugly haze that hangs over urban areas—as a result of emissions-producing human activities as diverse as manufacturing, mowing the lawn, driving cars, and even cooking. These emissions…