A lead naming gift from the Lindes endows The Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy. Link opens in a new tab ..read more

Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years ..read more

New research demonstrates that ultrasound can be used to precisely and noninvasively image the human brain and its activity following the placement of a transparent cranial prosthetic ..read more

Caltech neuroscientists are making promising progress toward showing that a device known as a brain–machine interface (BMI), which they developed to implant into the brains of patients who have lost the ability to speak, could one day help all such patients communicate by simply thinking and not speaking or miming ..read more

Using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, Southern California high school student Vanya Agrawal creates new "space music ..read more

To turn jellyfish into deep sea scientists, John Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, first needed to ensure they could swim for several days with the necessary tiny electronic devices attached to them. He was going to need a bigger tank. Link opens in a new tab ..read more

In a public talk called “Historic Innovations by Caltech People that Transformed our Everyday Lives,” which closes the 101st season of the Watson Lectures, Mead will illuminate the contributions of campus scientists and engineers who have worked to identify and eliminate Los Angeles smog; to engineer the semiconductors that ushered in Silicon Valley and the age of digital information; to create the lasers that made the World Wide Web possible; to bring GPS to the masses; and to make cars electronic. His discussion will span both his own work and that of colleagues, students, and fellow alumni ..read more

The mathematician and chemist join a long list of Caltech faculty members who are members of the prestigious scientific academy ..read more

Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team led by Caltech has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive black hole might look ..read more

A new AI-informed control method developed by Soon-Jo Chung and his team gives hybrid electric aircraft a way to detect when something has gone wrong and keep on flying ..read more