Using Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect Earthquakes
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
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Engineers Place Thousands of Nanoscale Molecular Devices in Precise Orientation
Proof-of-concept project paves the way for the integration of molecules with computer chips. Engineers have developed a technique that allows them to precisely place microscopic…
Neuroscientists Find Thin Line Between Love and Hate in the Mouse Brain
Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always…
Studying Chaos Phenomena With One of the World’s Fastest Cameras
There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces…
A Tale of Planetary Resurrection in a Triple-Star System With a Skewed Configuration
Years after its detection, astronomers have learned that a planet called KOI-5Ab orbits in a triple-star system with a skewed configuration. Shortly after NASA’s Kepler…
New COVID-19 Vaccine: Nanoparticle Immunization Technology Could Protect Against Many Strains of Coronaviruses
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
Hundreds of Copies of Newton’s Principia Found in New Census In a story of lost and stolen books and scrupulous detective work across continents, a…
Caltech’s AI-Driven COVID-19 Model Dramatically Outperforms Other Models
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…
Neuroscientists Discover How Aggression Leads to More Aggression
Like a champion fighter gaining confidence after each win, a male mouse that prevails in several successive aggressive encounters against other male mice will become…
Andrea Ghez Awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for Supermassive Black Hole Discovery
Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA, has won the 2020 Nobel…
Caltech Develops a Way to Map Brain Circuits in Real Time
A new approach called integrated neurophotonics could allow researchers to track the activity of all the neurons that make up a particular brain circuit. To…
Fast Enough to See Light Travel: Ultrafast Camera Films 3-D Movies at 100 Billion Frames per Second
In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech’s Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames…
Extremely Rare Higgs Boson Decay Process Spotted at the Large Hadron Collider
The Higgs boson reached overnight fame in 2012 when it was finally discovered in a jumble of other particles generated at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…
SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex: New Sensor Rapidly Detects COVID-19 Infection
One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it can be easily spread to others by a person…
Mystery of Strange Storms on Jupiter With Unusual Geometric Pattern Solved With Help From 19th Century Physics
At the south pole of Jupiter lurks a striking sight—even for a gas giant planet covered in colorful bands that sports a red spot larger…
Caltech’s Seismic Innovation Uses Undersea Earthquakes to Shake Up Climate Science
Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers, as much as 95 percent of the extra heat…
A Molecular Approach to Quantum Computing Leads to Fewer Errors
New research demonstrates how the use of molecules in quantum computing leads to fewer errors. The technology behind the quantum computers of the future is…
Caltech Innovations Using Alkaline-Earth Atoms Pave the Way for New Quantum Computer Designs
Physicists’ latest achievement with neutral atoms paves the way for new quantum computer designs. In the quest to develop quantum computers, physicists have taken several…