Scientists from Caltech and USC have developed a new technique that can quickly provide 3D color images that capture both the structure of soft tissues and details of how the blood vessels are functioning. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

Michael M. Watkins, professor of aerospace and geophysics, has been appointed the new director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies(KISS). www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...

Caltech researchers have invented a new technology to write long sequences of DNA with groundbreaking accuracy. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

Caltech researchers have invented a new technology to write long sequences of DNA with groundbreaking accuracy. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

Jonas Zmuidzinas (BS '81), the Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics at Caltech, will receive the 2026 James Craig Watson Medal, a National Academy of Sciences honor presented every two years for "outstanding contributions to the science of astronomy." www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Congratulations to Adam Wierman, Carl F Braun Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, on being named a 2025 ACM Fellow. awards.acm.org/fellows

Jonas Zmuidzinas (BS '81), the Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics at Caltech, will receive the 2026 James Craig Watson Medal, a National Academy of Sciences honor presented every two years for "outstanding contributions to the science of astronomy." www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

A new study, which draws on survey data from approximately 3,000 respondents in the United States and Canada, finds that women, on average, exhibit greater skepticism toward artificial intelligence (AI) technologies than men. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Shri Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the highest honor from the organization, awarded annually since 1824. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

A team of scientists led by alumni-founded company Asari AI with researchers from Caltech and MIT, developed a new framework that enables programmers to improve their agent to quickly recover from errors without rewriting the core logic of their agent. www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Answering a challenge from collaborating cancer specialists, Lihong Wang has pioneered a means of analyzing excised tissues during surgery itself with the help of AI, permitting surgeons to continue removing tissue as necessary until all the cancer is gone. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

Brent Minchew, Caltech professor of geophysics, discusses how we might prevent sea-level rise.

As our community grappled with loss and uncertainty after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, researchers jumped into action, collecting data as soon as flames erupted. In this podcast series, scientists and engineers lend their expertise and answer questions. scienceexchange.caltech.edu/connect/afte...

One year after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, Caltech researchers are pressing forward with research projects to provide answers in service of public health and safety.

It is our great privilege to announce today the appointment of Ray Jayawardhana, a renowned astrophysicist, accomplished academic leader, and award-winning author, as the tenth president of Caltech. www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...

Please join us tomorrow at 11 a.m. on campus or online for the naming of Caltech’s next president! www.caltech.edu/campus-life-...

A new Caltech-led study provides the most detailed picture to date of how the Hollywood Basin responds to groundwater usage, revealing that current estimates of sustainable groundwater yield may be too high. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

$50 million commitment to Caltech endows and names the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace, securing the Institute's leadership in the rapidly evolving sectors of space science and exploration. Read more: bit.ly/456iTZt

Led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA, and published in the journal Nature, the new study could have implications for scientists' understanding of Titan and other icy moons throughout our solar system. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Astronomers are reporting evidence for a possible second kilonova event, but the case is not closed. In fact, this situation is much more complex. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

Caltech's new assistant professor of mathematics Lingfu Zhang wants to elucidate the math behind these growth patterns and understand how and why the math is so widespread. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled! 🔧 roman.ipac.caltech.edu/news/nasa-co... IPAC hosts the Roman Science Support Center, conducting Coronagraph Instrument operations, data processing, proposal management, and community engagement. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 @nancyromansci.bsky.social

A team of scientists led by Caltech and Cedars-Sinai has developed a new artificial intelligence framework that can accurately, quickly, and efficiently create virtual models of brain neurons. www.caltech.edu/about/news/m...

Kip Thorne (BS '62)—theoretical astrophysicist, distinguished alumnus, and Nobel laureate—will deliver the keynote address at Caltech's 132nd annual Commencement ceremony on June 12, 2026. www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...

Images of distant molecular clouds from the James Webb Space Telescope feature such hot–cold interactions, with frozen dust illuminated by pockets of shocked gas and newborn stars. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of reproductive technology. However, there are still many unanswered scientific questions about the basic biology of embryos, that, if resolved, could ultimately improve IVF's success rate. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

Kenny Lau, a postdoctoral scholar research associate and experimental cosmologist in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA), passed away on November 22, 2025. He was 36 years old. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

The results are in! We’ve been ranked #3 in Interdisciplinary Sciences in association with Schmidt Science Fellows. www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer... #THEISR #THEISF #THEunirankings

A detailed new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of massive dying stars, known as Wolf–Rayet stars, orbiting tightly around each other. www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...

1/3 Some photos from poster session at last month's #ProtectingTheElection: #AIandGovernance Conference at @washupolisci.bsky.social. Great Posters, everyone. Thanks for participating! More photos & videos forthcoming. Co-Organizers Betsy Sinclair & @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltech.edu

Come to see us at #39 in the graduate school fair of #SfN25 @sfn.org to learn about the wonderful programs in Neuroscience at @caltech.edu. We are here to answer questions about Phd in Computational neuroscience, Neurobiology, MD/PhD and postdocs!

Please help AWM congratulate the winners of the 2026 Schafer Prizes for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman! ✅ Khyathi Komalan - @caltech.edu ✅ Chloe Marple - @pomonacollege.bsky.social ✅ Saskia Solotko - @tufts.edu 🔗 Press release: awm-math.org/wp-content/u... #AWM #Math

@caltech.edu astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin discusses how AI’s rapid rise is redefining how scientists teach, learn, and innovate. youtube.com/shorts/THqlj...

L'Oréal USA has awarded one of five 2025 For Women in Science grants to Caltech's Georgia Squyres, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dianne Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Merkin Institute Professor. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

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...