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September 03, 2015 Seismometer Helps Students Prep for 'The Big One' Students attending Van Avery Prep, a private K-8 school in Temecula, will this year be sharing space for the first time with a tiny seismometer. Caltech is a partner in Quake-Catcher, which places the devices in private residences and schools.	September 01, 2015 Dr. Chiara Mingarelli Answers 39 Smart Questions Chiara Mingarelli, Caltech's Marie Curie Postdoctoral Scholar in Astrophysics, discussed black holes and gravitational-wave astrophysics with Experimenting host Megan Amram.	August 31, 2015 The Experiment That Could Let Us Find Ripples in Space-time: Scientists Find a Way to See and Manipulate "Quantum Motion" Researchers, in a study led by Caltech physics professor Keith Schwab, have found a way to observe, and control, something known as "quantum motion" or noise which could one day improve the precision of very sensitive instruments.
August 28, 2015 How Caltech's "Artificial Leaf" Could Revolutionize the Clean Energy Economy Researchers working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have created an "artificial leaf" that uses sunlight to generate clean fuel in a process with a new level of efficiency, along with stability and safety.	August 26, 2015 80 Teens Participate in Citizenship Ceremony at Caltech About 80 mostly high school-aged students participated in a citizenship ceremony in Beckman Auditorium featuring Caltech vice provost (and naturalized U.S. citizen) Morteza Gharib as the keynote speaker.	August 26, 2015 Stephen Hawking Says He's Solved a Black Hole Mystery, But Physicists Await the Proof Caltech physicists John Preskill and Sean Carroll discuss Stephen Hawking's proposed solution to the black hole information paradox.
August 26, 2015 Parting Curtains of Dust, and Finding Black Holes NuSTAR, the NASA X-Ray satellite, conceived of and led by Caltech researcher Fiona Harrison, "has proven to be a game changer in black hole research," recently leading to the discovery of five supermassive black holes.	August 24, 2015 How "killing" Pluto redefined the solar system Mike Brown, Caltech's self-proclaimed Pluto killer, demoted the planet nine years ago. Since then, our obsession with it has grown and has forever changed our view of our solar system.	August 21, 2015 To Avoid Mosquitoes, Stop Breathing and Be Invisible Caltech's Floris van Breugel has discovered that hungry mosquitoes use an arsenal of sensory tools to hunt you down — but mostly their vision.
August 13, 2015 Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics Thomas F. Rosenbaum and colleagues at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory recently used a synchrotron X-ray source to pinpoint, for the first time, the instabilities that arise in interactions between the electrons in metals.	August 13, 2015 The Way We Measure Earthquakes Is Stupid Tom Heaton and Lucy Jones discuss better and more accurate ways to measure shaking—the seismic moment, for one—than the logarithmic calculations used for the Richter scale.	August 11, 2015 New Exoplanet: Big Earth or Small Neptune? Caltech astronomer Leslie Rogers analyzed several dozen planets including the newly discovered Kepler 452b and found that most with diameters at least 1.6 times as large as Earth's are gaseous, not rocky.
August 08, 2015 Study Puts High-Rises on Fault Line Caltech's Jean-Philippe Avouac's study of the 2015 Nepal quake revealed the shaking was far different than expected, explaining why smaller buildings survived the oscillations.	August 07, 2015 Two Studies Offer New Clues to How Galaxies Form and Emerge from 'Dark Ages' Richard Ellis, Caltech's Steele Family Professor of Astronomy, and a team of astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy yet, an observation that could offer new insights into early stages of the universe.	August 07, 2015 Deadly Nepal Earthquake Was Not the 'Big One,' Scientists Say Caltech geophysicist Jean-Philippe Avouac and colleagues took data from GPS monitors placed around the region to get a more accurate picture of the shaking during the 2015 quake.