Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode all of life's functions. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

A new study from Caltech's Jim Fuller, professor of theoretical astrophysics, proposes a new model of the final death throes of Sun-like stars that shows how escaping mass from the stars' surfaces leads to a series of little kicks. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Pawel Janas, an assistant professor of economics at Caltech, examined in a new study investigating American education rates during the Great Depression. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

Quantum acoustics devices may have applications in quantum computers and biophysics. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

Wearable and implantable biosensors have the potential to revolutionize health care by diagnosing, monitoring, and even treating a wide range of health conditions. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

The last decade in America has been marked by falling confidence in higher education and politicized attacks on academic institutions. But what is driving these growing negative perceptions and what can be done about them? www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Undergraduate students in the Caltech chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) have been working for the past several years to design and fund an improved water supply system for Tandacato, a rural village in Ecuador. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells still perform a version of that feat every time an embryo begins to take shape? www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

On Wednesday we dedicated @caltech.edu’s Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement. We won’t be moving in for a few more months, but it’s going to be a beautiful facility. We're very grateful to the generous donors who made this possible. It was a great day. www.caltech.edu/about/news/g...

The Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) has selected Brian M. Stoltz, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry to receive this year's Richard C. Tolman Award. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

🎉🚨Big announcement! My lab is moving to the @caltech.edu campus this summer! We'll be recruiting at all levels and are already looking for a lab manager to help us set up the lab 🧪🥼👀. If you're dynamic, ready for new challenges, 👇apply 👇 jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/carneg...

Arthur Lupia (MS ’88, PhD ’91) returned to @caltech.edu to speak on trust and credibility in science on May 26, 2026. Proud to see this alum leading work so closely aligned with the @caltechlcssp.bsky.social’s mission! Article: www.caltech.edu/about/news/c... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAh7...

Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement Construction Timelapse

On June 17, the Caltech community, along with donors, state and local government representatives, and industry partners gathered to celebrate the dedication of the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement. Photography: Chris Flynn & Devin Feil for Caltech

Caltech's Garnet Kin-Lic Chan and Michael Elowitz have been named a fellow and a foreign member, respectively, of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Dr. Lucy Jones sits down with Dr. Kate Scharer to discuss recent news regarding the San Andreas Fault and its "imminent" rupture. Full Interview: youtu.be/1LxJwK9BMYw?...

A team led by researchers at Caltech has shown that a single snapshot of a mouse testis is enough to reconstruct the entire weeks-long cycle of sperm production, along with the cell-to-cell coordination that organizes it. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Join us as we celebrate our graduates' accomplishments and look forward with pride and anticipation to the impact they will make in the world. commencement.caltech.edu/watch

#SoCaltech: Meet Caltech’s 2026 Graduates Eleven of Caltech’s 2026 graduates discuss their achievements, challenges, and lessons learned during their time at the Institute. magazine.caltech.edu/post/socalte...

Caltech Readies to Build World's Most Sensitive Radio Telescope. Schmidt Sciences has greenlit the construction of the @deepsynopticarray.bsky.social, a game changer for radio astronomy. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Neptune acts like a shepherd for the outer solar system, gravitationally scattering distant asteroids known as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). Understanding Neptune's history gives important clues to how the rest of the solar system evolved to its present state. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the ninth president of Caltech, will retire on June 30, 2026. As we approach the end of our academic school year, we’d like to take this time to thank him for his advancements, contributions, and leadership. Thank you, Mr. President!

The members of the 2026 class of DAAs—first announced at Caltech's 89th Annual Seminar Day on May 16—join the 280 individuals who have been named since the award's inception in 1966. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2026 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical sciences. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Jonas C. Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry and director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI) at Caltech, has been elected one of 42 new members of the American Philosophical Society (APS) this year. www.caltech.edu/about/news/j...

Caltech’s 132nd Commencement exercises will take place on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 10 a.m. on Beckman Mall. Utilize #Caltech2026 and tag @caltechedu for all related posts to be featured on our social media channels as we collectively celebrate our distinguished graduates!

As a staff scientist on the SRL team for nearly 30 years now, Cohen has helped design and calibrate numerous instruments to measure solar energetic particles, a type of cosmic ray released by the Sun during solar flares and coronal mass ejections. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

New theoretical work shows that string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the universe. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

On May 6, the Hertz Foundation announced this year's cohort of 19 Hertz Fellows. Among them are fourth-year undergraduate Sam Foxman and incoming graduate student Nikhil Seshadri. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Karthish Manthiram's lab has figured out how to drive a series of chemical reactions that produce the epoxide propylene oxide using a much greener process and the inexpensive, Earth-abundant catalyst, lanthanum cobaltite. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Oscar Mandel, author, playwright, and professor of literature, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on May 20, 2026. He was 99 years old. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Models to explain Ganymede's formation and dynamo have been developed, but they are at odds with each other. Now, a study led by Caltech proposes a new mechanism to reconcile the two—one that suggests Ganymede's interior may still be warming up. www.caltech.edu/about/news/g...

More than 2,000 students, teachers, and volunteers took part in the 2026 Southern California Science Olympiad State Tournament, hosted at Caltech and Polytechnic School in April. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

The Future Leaders Program of the Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) 2026 cohort includes graduate student Anjali Gurajapu from the laboratory of Sarah Reisman. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Three Caltech professors and their colleague from Stanford University have been addressing the question of how to assess the performance of quantum systems. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

A team of scientists at Caltech have developed a new autofocus technique, which they call Digital Defocus Aberration Interference (DAbI), shared in a paper published online on April 24 in the journal Nature Communications. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Avinash "Avi" Vadali, a fourth-year undergraduate studying physics, has been named a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, one of the most selective graduate funding awards in the United States. www.caltech.edu/about/news/u...

Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and a team of Caltech researchers have developed a system that can perform ultrasound tomography (UST) imaging on whole cross-sections of the body. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

LIGO-India broke ground on April 23, 2026, at Aundha in the Hingoli district of Maharashtra, located in the western peninsular region of India. www.caltech.edu/about/news/l...

In a recently published paper in Nature, the team shows that neurons in the IT cortex rapidly switch from a neural code that supports face detection to one optimized for face identification—all within roughly 20 milliseconds after a face is viewed. www.caltech.edu/about/news/f...

Two Caltech professors were awarded 2026 New Horizons Prizes as part of the Breakthrough Foundation's annual prize ceremony, known colloquially as the "Oscars of Science." www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Imaging is a critical technique in biology. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Caltech researchers has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify cells in images for a wide variety of biological applications. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Melatonin is a naturally produced molecule that has long been suspected to play a role in healthy sleep. Now, Caltech researchers have discovered a mechanism through which melatonin promotes sleep, using zebrafish models in the laboratory. www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Caltech researchers led by Austin Minnich, professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics, and deputy chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, have demonstrated a laser-based method for generating thin films of materials, such as niobium. www.caltech.edu/about/news/m...

Shu-ou Shan, Caltech's Altair Professor of Chemistry, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest honorary societies. She joins 251 other new members this year. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

In late March, the Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship to 454 third- and fourth-year university students. www.caltech.edu/about/news/f...

Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet's surface. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

On Wednesday, April 8, the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace at Caltech was formally dedicated in a ceremony held outside the north entrance of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

The Caltech Space Challenge (CSC) returned to campus March 23–27 after a four-year hiatus, bringing together 32 graduate students from around the world to design a dual-target space mission to visit Venus and a nearby comet. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...