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06/01/2016

LIGO Founders Win Shaw Prize

Whitney Clavin

This year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy, worth $1.2 million, has been awarded to the trio of researchers who founded LIGO.

Aerial photograph of LIGO Livingston facility

05/27/2016

A Conversation with Stevan Nadj-Perge

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

A conversation with Stevan Nadj-Perge, assistant professor of applied physics and materials science, about using 2-D materials in the development of a device that could turn quantum computing concepts into usable technology.

05/03/2016

LIGO Team Awarded Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Selection Committee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has announced a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing the scientists and engineers who contributed to the detection of gravitational waves by LIGO.

04/25/2016

Glitz & Qubits

Marcus Woo

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has put Caltech quantum computing and superstring theory experts in the spotlight.

04/19/2016

Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found

A new study provides clues to the mystery of free-floating planets, worlds which sit in the darkness of space without any companion planets or even a host sun.

04/13/2016

The Transforming World of Neutrinos

Lorinda Dajose

The first results from NOvA, an experiment studying fundamental questions in neutrino physics.

03/28/2016

JPL News: The Mystery of Migrating "Hot Jupiters"

How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars? NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds new clues.

03/22/2016

Students and Postdocs Helped Make Sure LIGO Was Listening

Kimm Fesenmaier

A number of Caltech graduate students and postdocs played pivotal roles in getting the twin LIGO interferometers operating with the sensitivity to detect the first signals of gravitational waves.

03/17/2016

Discovered: Colossal "Super Spiral" Galaxies

A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed "super spirals," these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own Milky Way.

03/04/2016

The Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech professor of physics Rana Adhikari will describe how our understanding of the quantum physics of the very, very small has allowed us to explore the gravitational physics of the very, very large.

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