Artist’s illustration depicts the quantum spin of an ytterbium ion with the surrounding yttrium orthovanadate crystal. The spin states of the atoms can be used…
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This is an artist’s Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. The planet, which orbits closely to its…
Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May.Credit: Photo Courtesy Worcester Polytechnic Institute The distinguished…
The search for signatures of quantum gravity forges ahead. Sand dunes seen from afar seem smooth and unwrinkled, like silk sheets spread across the desert.…
A strong laser is seen illuminating a material in a low-temperature chamber. The laser is being used to change the material’s degree of transparency. Credit:…
Credit: Caltech New planetary candidates found by sifting through archival Kepler Telescope data. A fully automated exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that…
Credit: Caltech Viruses reproduce by taking over the replication machinery of host cells to make copies of their own genetic material, or genome. Unlike cellular…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
Credit: B. Weissbourd The human brain has 100 billion neurons, making 100 trillion connections. Understanding the precise circuits of brain cells that orchestrate all of…
DNA and associated cellular machinery is gathered and organized by certain non-coding RNAs, each region shown in a different colored jellybean-shape in this model. Credit:…
The entire measurement procedure takes a few hours to complete, and it is completely automated and controlled either remotely or from the laboratory workstation. The…
The partnership could lead to pioneering quantum computingPerforming computation using quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement.”>quantum computing technologies for a range of fields. This…
Thanks to a new breakthrough that uses a specialized material only three atoms thick, scientists can control light more precisely than ever before. Credit: Caltech…
Credit: Barth van Rossum for Caltech If you are a researcher who wants to see how just a few cells in an organism are behaving,…
A human embryo in the lab at 9 days after fertilization. The hypoblast (a group of cells outside the main embryo) sends a message to…
This illustration shows a massive star that is about to explode. The explosion was triggered after its dead-star companion (a black hole or neutron star)…
A new experimental setup for studying animal behavior and learning. Your commute to work may seem like a mundane thing, but it is a great…
Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures (pictured) may be a promising route to lightweight armor,…
A casting of a nest made by a species of ant found in Florida next to an adult man for scale. Credit: Charles F. Badland…
The study’s target, Psyche, is the destination of an upcoming NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of…