Alireza Marandi, professor of electrical engineering and applied physics, has been named a 2026 Moore Experimental Physics Investigator. He is one of 21 new investigators named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
In recent weeks, a surprisingly contentious debate has been making headlines around the world: What role should artificial intelligence (AI) play in mathematics?
Caltech faculty members Mitchell Guttman and Markus Meister (PhD '87) have been selected to receive "high-risk, high-reward" grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for cutting-edge work in biomedical science and neuroscience.
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To build the quantum future, we need infrastructure to connect powerful quantum computers with each other and with their users: a quantum internet. Read about how researchers like Maria Spiropulu are using state-of-the-art superconducting single-photon detectors.
Optogenetics, the subject of Monday's 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has revolutionized the work of Caltech neuroscientists.
On September 22, the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope opened its eyes to cosmic light for the first time, which is commanded from Caltech's IPAC.
Alireza Marandi, professor of electrical engineering and applied physics, has been named a 2026 Moore Experimental Physics Investigator. He is one of 21 new investigators named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
This morning, NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission successfully launched to the International Space Station, commanded by NASA astronaut and former Caltech postdoc Jessica Watkins.
Two missions led by Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, have received recognition from NASA for outstanding achievements.
Welcome back, Beavers! Let’s make this year a great one.
Infertility affects about one in six people of reproductive age, yet its causes often remain unexplained.
NASA has selected PRIMA, a far-infrared space observatory designed to reveal the cold, dusty universe hidden from visible-light telescopes.
Caltech, JPL, and IPAC will play key roles in the mission, targeted to launch in the 2030s.
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Caltech has been recognized among the nation's top universities, ranking fifth in the 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list. The placement is the Institute's largest single-year climb in more than 25 years.
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We’re proud to announce that Harry B. Gray and Jay R. Winkler have been named Citation Laureates 2026 by @ClarivateAG! Their pioneering research in Chemistry is shaping the future of science.
In computer simulations of The Big One—a large magnitude earthquake that may occur along the San Andreas Fault in California—seismic waves ripple from a magnitude 7.8 epicenter near the Salton Sea up into the Los Angeles Basin.
Researchers at Caltech have developed a new, more effective way to transport potentially life-changing therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier.
Theatre Arts at Caltech teamed up with the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter to run an experiment like none other.
Researchers have discovered a thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface throughout Mars's southern hemisphere.
TIME named Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Anima Anandkumar, to the 2026 TIME100 AI, a list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. #TIME100AI
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