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…
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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…
Microbiologists Discover Bacteria That Feed on Metal, Ending a Century-Long Search
Finding ends a century-long search for microbes that live on manganese. Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as…
Astronomers Find Mystery Object in Mass Gap – “We’ve Been Waiting Decades to Solve This Mystery!”
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive…
Geoscientists Use AI to Figure Out the Cause of California Earthquake Swarm That Lasted for Years
Natural Fluid Injections Triggered Cahuilla Earthquake Swarm Machine-learning algorithm helps geoscientists create a 3-D picture of a fault zone, generating new insight into seismic processes….
CalTech Physicists Propose Innovative New Experiment for Detecting Dark Matter
Thinking Small: New Ideas in the Search for Dark Matter Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up…
New Fiber Optic Seismic Array in Pasadena Precisely Tracked the Rose Parade
New seismic array is sensitive enough to distinguish individual floats and bands. In November, Caltech and the City of Pasadena unveiled a new citywide fiber…
New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation
Gyroscopes have been indispensable tools for navigation and measurement for many decades. Early gyroscopes were not much different than spinning tops, but the technology has…
NASA Has Selected 8 US Manufacturers to Make New COVID-19 Ventilator
A host of international companies will be evaluated next for the free license granted by Caltech. After receiving more than 100 applications, NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
Researchers Create Bionic Jellyfish That Swim Faster and More Efficiently
Researchers at Caltech and Stanford use microelectronics to enhance jellyfish swimming. Engineers at Caltech and Stanford University have developed a tiny prosthetic that enables jellyfish…