Caltech alum @jimfruchterman.bsky.social joined @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social on campus recently to discuss Jim's book, #TechnologyForGood, during the #BehindTheBook Series at @caltech.edu.

The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience are closely intertwined. Artificial intelligence was inspired by the human brain, and, in turn, AI can help us better understand the brain's complex inner workings. scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/neuro...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate? www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Sujit Datta (Datta Lab) talks to Caltech about "his work and what is so special about all this squishy stuff." https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/studying-the-squishy-stuff-a-conversation-with-sujit-datta

The annual retreat of @caltech.edu's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) is an opportunity to spend the weekend with some of my favorite scientists. It is always an uplifting and illuminating experience.

The flare, co-discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility, may be the result of a mega black-hole meal. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

New analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars' past to a time, some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up biofilms, sticky masses of millions of cells that are often responsible for antibiotic-tolerant infections. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Adrián Lozano-Durán, an associate professor of aerospace at Caltech, and MIT graduate student Yuan Yuan, have developed a theorem that takes any number of possible variables and whittles them down, leaving only those that are most important. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

A pair of distant black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, are improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space collisions in our universe. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Perona and Belongie wondered if they could replace search words with images, but they knew that it would not be easy to convince people to tediously and appropriately tag every object and its parts in millions of pictures. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

Caltech researchers co-lead new study refining what we know about the ghostly particles. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, and her colleagues have introduced a new machine learning model called NucleusDiff. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Lihong Wang, the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair and the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Caltech, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). #NAMmtg www.caltech.edu/about/news/l...

Introducing X1: The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid's back and, later, drive away. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, lends his expertise in a collaborative piece discussing the potential effects of AI in foreign affairs.

Through experiments, theory, and computational modeling, scientists have found that the way cells arrange themselves is shaped by oxygen levels and is predictable and controllable, offering insights that could lead to new ways to target infections. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Caltech researchers have now developed technology to freeze and preserve stem cells from birds that can then be reconstituted to help propagate populations. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

A collaboration between physicists at Caltech and other institutions has released an expanded and refined catalog of simulations of black hole mergers. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000. www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...

Researchers in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, are developing nanoscale machines made out of synthetic DNA, taking advantage of DNA's unique chemical bonding properties to build circuits that can process signals much like miniature computers. www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Ten Caltech faculty members begin the 2025-2026 academic year with newly bestowed honors: six with named professorships, one of the Institute's highest honors, and four with distinguished leadership chairs for administrative positions. www.caltech.edu/about/news/l...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses into clouds and falls as rain throughout the giant planet's swirled, turbulent atmosphere. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Welcome week has concluded with today’s convocation! Our Fall ‘25 Techers are well on their way to having a successful school year. Alum, what’s one piece of advice you wish you’d been given before your first term? #Caltech #Fall2025 #FutureOfSTEM

It’s convocation day! #Fall2025 #Caltech #FutureOfSTEM

Caltech physicists have created the largest qubit array ever assembled: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.

The first day of class is just around the corner, so today we welcomed our newest Techers to campus! From housing to student life, our community showed up to help guide these future leaders of research toward the start of their next journey. #Fall2025 #Caltech #FutureOfSTEM

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances comparable to Mars. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of the quantum interactions that take place in materials. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices. www.caltech.edu/about/news/u...

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

In memory of the exemplary scientist David Baltimore, who passed on September 6th, TWiV has re-issued its 100th episode featuring a discussion with him on viruses. Our lab was incredibly fortunate to work with and learn from him since he joined @caltech.edu almost 28 years ago. tinyurl.com/2md4kknj

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could transform how we study fertility. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

David Baltimore, President Emeritus and the Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology, Emeritus at Caltech and a co-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, passed away on September 6, 2025. He was 87 years old. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Researchers at Caltech and Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy teamed up with Google DeepMind to develop a new AI method–called Deep Loop Shaping–that can better hush unwanted noise in LIGO's detectors. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead of electronic parts that carries out computation through chemical reactions rather than digital signals. www.caltech.edu/about/news/d...

A new study from Caltech reports that two candidate drugs to activate mitophagy do not function in their intended manner to mitigate the effects of Parkinson's; instead, they simply damage cells. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (PhD '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated plasma. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

We congratulate Prof. Andrei Faraon on his appointment as Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at @caltech.edu, who will continue to build on the outstanding work of his predecessor Prof. Julia Greer. Learn more: http://bit.ly/3Hy6bKC #KavliNano

A new case of the plague has been located in El Dorado county, but should you be concerned? How do scientists predict the spread of a virus? Learn how disease modeling works and why it matters on the #CaltechScienceExchange. scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/covid...

Three innovative new projects to explore Earth and the cosmos have been selected to move forward through the Brinson Exploration Hub at Caltech. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

Neurons are the primary cells responsible for receiving and sending signals throughout the brain and nervous system. The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, with trillions of connections among them. scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/neuro...

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits. www.caltech.edu/about/news/u...

A new study from Caltech uses satellite imaging of the Sagaing Fault's motion to improve models of how such faults may behave in the future. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own Sun. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

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Using lamprey as a model organism, Caltech researchers have discovered how the evolutionary acquisition of a certain kind of stem cell, called a neural crest cell, facilitated the evolution of the endostyle into the thyroid. www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Results could help researchers understand the fundamental limits of what is learnable in the quantum universe. www.caltech.edu/about/news/q...