PASADENA, CA – Viraj Karambelkar, a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been selected as a 2025 fellow in the esteemed NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Out of over ...

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Former Dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Ray Jayawardhana, has been named the next president of the California Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday at a community-wide gathering ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades. When you ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...

Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition ...

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Catholic school in Pasadena is speaking out against a construction project that has some community members worried about security and traffic hazards. Caltech wants to ...