An illustration of Saturn and its “fuzzy” core. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Saturn Makes Waves in its Own Rings In the same way that earthquakes…
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Hungry Fruit Flies Are Extreme Ultramarathon Fliers – Can Travel Six Million Times Their Body Length
Hungry Fruit Flies Are Extreme Ultramarathon Fliers – Can Travel Six Million Times Their Body Length
Experiments to measure a fruit fly’s top speed involved releasing tens of thousands of fruit flies and luring them away with fragrant cocktails of fermenting…
Credit: Caltech A good way to find out what a cell is doing—whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under…
Four of the newfound quadruply imaged quasars are shown here: From top left and moving clockwise, the objects are: GraL J1537-3010 or “Wolf’s Paw;” GraL…
Stars, galaxies, and everything in the universe, including our own bodies, are comprised of so-called regular matter. Regular matter includes atoms and molecules, which are…
Artist’s rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. A plume of ice particles, water vapor, and organic molecules sprays from…
Researchers placed more than 3,000 glowing moon-shaped nanoscale molecular devices into a flower-shaped instrument for indicating the polarization of light. The “moons” in each of…
Credit: Caltech There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard…
This artist’s concept shows the planet KOI-5Ab transiting across the face of a sun-like star, which is part of a triple-star system located 1,800 light-years…
Method presents the immune system with several different coronaviruses at once. The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many…
Newton’s Principia: A Story of Lost and Stolen Books and Scrupulous Detective Work Across Continents
Newton’s Principia: A Story of Lost and Stolen Books and Scrupulous Detective Work Across Continents
Caltech’s own copy of the first edition of the Principia is part of the Institute’s Archives and Special Collections. In the 18th century, it belonged…
Researchers hope the model can inform public health decision-making amid the pandemic. A new model for predicting COVID-19’s impact using artificial intelligence (AI) dramatically outperforms…
Caltech researchers have discovered that hard-wired neural circuits governing aggression in mice are strengthened following their victories in aggressive encounters. Credit: Caltech Like a champion…
Andrea Ghez. Credit: Christopher Dibble/UCLA Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA,…
A new approach called integrated neurophotonics could allow researchers to track the activity of all the neurons that make up a particular brain circuit. Credit:…
A three-dimensional video showing a pulse of laser light passing through a laser-scattering medium and bouncing off reflective surfaces. Credit: Caltech In his quest to…
An artist’s rendering showing how the sensor contains areas that each detect a different indicator of a COVID-19 infection. Credit: Caltech One feature of the…
An artist’s rendering of undersea earthquake waves. Credit: Caltech Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers,…
This illustration represents two entangled qubits, in which the qubits are individually controlled strontium atoms. The red shapes denote so-called optical tweezers that hold one…
Manganese oxide nodules generated by the bacteria discovered by the Caltech team. The nodules are generally about 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters in diameter. Images are…