On October 8, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a second round of funding for its Genesis Mission, a nationwide initiative to use AI to tackle pressing challenges in science and technology ...

Five Caltech faculty members have been selected to receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award starting this year. CAREER awards, the NSF's most ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton is typically portrayed as a solitary scientist with intense focus who was obsessed with power and deeply egotistical. But a new book by Caltech historians Jed Buchwald and Mordechai ...

On Friday, September 25, Caltech formally welcomed its newest class of scholars, including 255 undergraduate students, 173 graduate students, and 40 postdoctoral scholars, at a Convocation ceremony in ...

The Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series, which has connected the public with groundbreaking Caltech research and innovation for more than 100 years, returns in November for the 2026–27 season.

NASA announced today the selection of a new space telescope that will explore the cold, dusty universe in far‑infrared light, providing the ability to view cosmic objects and events at wavelengths ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a contagious bacterial infection that primarily infects the lungs. While curative treatments exist for TB, more than 80 percent of cases occur in low- and middle-income nations ...

In 1700, life was miserable everywhere. Nearly everyone was poor, most had to toil long days in fields just to feed their families, and half of all children died before adulthood. But throughout the ...