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Developmental Biologist Eric H. Davidson Passes Away

Eric Harris Davidson, Caltech's Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology, passed away on Tuesday, September 1, 2015. He was 78 years old.

Making Nanowires from Protein and DNA

Using computational and experimental methods, researchers at Caltech have developed a technique for creating so-called protein–DNA nanowires—a hybrid biomaterial that could have important applications.
Galaxy EGS8p7 as seen from space telescopes.

Farthest Galaxy Detected

Caltech researchers have reported the detection of the farthest object yet, galaxy EGS8p7. At more than 13.2 billion years old, it provides a fascinating glimpse of the very early universe, just 600,000 years after the Big Bang.

Research News

JPL News: What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.

Deformation of 3D Hierarchical Nanolattices

Researchers in the laboratory of Caltech's Julia Greer have designed a new kind of hierarchical nanostructure that is stronger than previous lattice structures and bounces back with less damage after compression.

Why Did Western Europe Dominate the Globe?

For centuries, the countries of western Europe colonized and conquered much of the rest of the world; Caltech's Philip Hoffman has a new explanation for why history unfolded in this way.

New, Ultrathin Optical Devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways

Caltech engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical components.

Seeing Quantum Motion

Even large objects obey quantum physics, meaning they are never quite at rest. Caltech researchers have developed a way to detect—and manipulate—this underlying quantum motion.

Caltech Chemists Solve Major Piece of Cellular Mystery

A team led by Caltech's André Hoelz has solved the architecture of the nuclear pore complex's complicated inner ring, a subcomplex that is central to the cellular machine's function. In the process, they disproved many previously held ideas about how the inner ring works.

Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Fuel Production

A new solar fuel generation system, or artificial leaf, developed by researchers at JCAP safely creates fuel from sunlight and water with record-setting efficiency and stability.

After a Half Century, the Exotic Pentaquark Particle is Found

In July, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported the discovery of the pentaquark, a long-sought particle first predicted to exist in the 1960s by Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann.

Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics

Caltech's Thomas F. Rosenbaum and colleagues at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory recently used a synchrotron X-ray source to investigate the existence of instabilities in the arrangement of the electrons in metals as a function of both temperature and pressure, and to pinpoint, for the first time, how those instabilities arise.

Details of the April 2015 Earthquake in Nepal

A team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake—a picture that explains how the large temblor left the majority of low-story buildings in Kathmandu unscathed.

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In The Media

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.

In Our Community

Yung Receives Prize for Planetary Science Research

Gharib Addresses Youths at U.S. Citizenship Ceremony

Alumnus Leads Math Olympiad Team to Victory

Crush, the RoboSub, Places in International Competition

A Permanent Home for the Rath Al Fresco

Physicist Charles A. Barnes Dies

Student Biosciences Innovator Named International Research Fellow

Caltech Theoretical Physicist Receives the 2015 Dirac Medal and Prize

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