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...

Varun Wadia (PhD '23), a former graduate student in neurobiology at Caltech, and a team of scientists and physicians have found that many of the same neurons that are active when looking at an object are also active when imagining that object from memory. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

On 3/30, Caltech’s latest space demonstration, ASTRA, was successfully launched on the Space-X Transporter 16. The mission is hosted on the Momentus Vigoride 7 spacecraft and is funded by the DARPA NOM4D program. Read more: www.darpa.mil/research/pro...

John O. Dabiri (PhD '05), Caltech's Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Joseph Lazio, a visiting associate in astronomy, have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) www.caltech.edu/about/news/j...

Research from Caltech and Oratomic developed a new approach for reducing the errors that riddle today's rudimentary quantum computers. The need for fewer qubits means that quantum computers could, in theory, be operational by the end of the decade. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

A new study from Caltech finds that a higher rate of change in groundwater levels leads to a noticeable increase in seismic activity. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Caltech scientists have developed a new way to produce optical frequency combs at the chip scale, an advance that should make it easier to incorporate such combs in optical devices and more practical to use them outside the laboratory. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

A new Caltech study indicates that drought increases the abundances of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in soils, which directly correlates with an increase in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals. www.caltech.edu/about/news/d...

Researchers in the lab of David Anderson have been studying aggression in male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies for decades, elucidating the neural basis for heightened aggression in males, among other discoveries. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Yuk L. Yung, professor of planetary science and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior research scientist, passed away on March 16, 2026, after a brief illness. He was 79. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. However, Zwicky Transient Facility has discovered a brown dwarf actively funneling matter from its companion. www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale dimensions. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

Exhaled breath can provide a treasure trove of health information, offering a noninvasive window to both respiratory microenvironments and systemic physiological states. But collecting such data is a challenge. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

Alumna Lauren Edgar (PhD '13) has been selected by NASA as one of 10 new astronaut candidates following a competitive selection process involving more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. www.caltech.edu/about/news/f...

In partnership with researchers at the UN, a team of researchers including Caltech's Hannah Druckenmiller have developed a new model that combines satellite imagery with machine learning to zoom in and capture finer-grained data about populations within countries. www.caltech.edu/about/news/m...

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off gravitational waves that reverberate across space and time over hundreds of millions and even billions of years. www.caltech.edu/about/news/g...

Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal details about what lies beneath. www.caltech.edu/about/news/u...

Some of the oldest zircon crystals are 4.4 billion years old. Now, a new Caltech study examines these most ancient zircon grains and discovers evidence for two key findings. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

A Caltech-led team of biochemists has homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part of the pathway bacteria use to build their chain-mail-like cell wall. www.caltech.edu/about/news/f...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have now shed fresh light on why antibiotics that work well in laboratory tests often fail against real infections in humans. www.caltech.edu/about/news/j...

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal's latest book explores French wealth, and its distribution, using data from nearly two centuries of bequest records. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

A trio of Caltech faculty members have been selected to receive the 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship: Elias Most, Huy Tuan Pham, and Lingfu Zhang. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

A new study presents a roadmap for simultaneously combining data on the abundance of greenhouses gases with data on winds to better pinpoint emission sources. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Brian Stoltz, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, has been awarded this year's Shirley M. Malcom Prize for Excellence in Mentoring. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

Sarah Reisman, Bren Professor of Chemistry and Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, has been awarded this year's Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech's highest teaching prize. www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Scientists sifting through archival data captured by NASA's former NEOWISE mission found an unusual star that quickly disappeared, fading to nothing more than a wispy shell. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

The planets in our solar system grew out of a disk of material that swirled around our Sun. Inner rocky planets formed as tiny grains stuck together, becoming pebbles, then boulders, and, ultimately, full-grown planets. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Caltech's Joseph E. Shepherd (PhD '81) and Shouleh Nikzad (PhD '90), chief technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). www.caltech.edu/about/news/s...

Earth's biosphere is brimming with symbiotic relationships: from bacteria that became our cells' mitochondria, to mycorrhizal fungi that help plants grow, to the myriad mites, wasps, worms, and flies that make a living by parasitizing other animals. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

George Rossman (PhD '71), professor of mineralogy, emeritus, passed away on February 6, 2026. He was 81. Rossman will be remembered for his contributions to education at Caltech, which spanned 55 years and impacted thousands of students. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical fiber at visible wavelengths. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

The best features I've done for @caltech.edu tend to highlight not a particular discovery but the often quirky and very particular culture of science. Like the how and why of naming a newfound mineral: magazine.caltech.edu/post/mineral...

Can we reimagine the way we power modern life? On Wednesday, February 25, 2026, Kimberly See, professor of chemistry, will discuss her group's research on next-generation battery chemistry that may lead to more efficient and sustainable ways of energizing the world. www.caltech.edu/about/news/w...

#OTD 40 years ago, IPACers moved to @caltech.edu campus! This memo details the move to IPAC (the Morrisroe building) the week of February 3rd, 1986. Before moving, IPACers worked in an office building on Lake Avenue, a few blocks from Caltech. #IPAC40 🔭

I’m proud to represent @caltech.edu, where researchers are connecting ideas from physics and economics to better understand complex systems. Excited to see this latest breakthrough and grateful for the innovation happening in our district every day. pasadenanow.com/main/economi...