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01/20/2004

The coming global peak in oil productionis a grave concern, according to new book

Robert Tindol

Ancient Persians tipped their fire arrows with it, and Native Americans doctored their ails with it. Any way you look at petroleum, the stuff has been around for a long time. Problem is, it's not going to be around much longer--or at least not in the quantities necessary to keep our Hummers humming.

12/17/2003

Moore Foundation Awards Additional $17.5 Million for Thirty-Meter Telescope Plans

Jill Perry

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12/11/2003

Caltech geophysicists gain new insights on Earth's core–mantle boundary

Robert Tindol

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12/10/2003

Caltech, SLAC, and LANL Set New Network Performance Marks

Robert Tindol

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11/13/2003

Cosmic Ray Detectors Installed at L.A. Middle School

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11/12/2003

Gamma-Ray Bursts, X-Ray Flashes, and Supernovae Not As Different As They Appear

Robert Tindol

For the past several decades, astrophysicists have been puzzling over the origin of powerful but seemingly different explosions that light up the cosmos several times a day. A new study this week demonstrates that all three flavors of these cosmic explosions--gamma-ray bursts, X-ray flashes, and certain supernovae of type Ic--are in fact connected by their common explosive energy, suggesting that a single type of phenomenon, the explosion of a massive star, is the culprit. The main difference between them is the "escape route" used by the energy as it flees from the dying star and its newly born black hole.

11/11/2003

Aeronautical Lab Celebrates Its 75th

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11/10/2003

Leonid Meteor Shower Roars into Skies

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10/22/2003

Caltech, JPL researchers unveil details on new type of light detector based on superconductivity

Robert Tindol

A new and improved way to measure light has been unveiled by physicists at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The technology exploits the strange but predictable characteristics of superconductivity, and has a number of properties that should lead to uses in a variety of fields, from medicine to astrophysics.

10/16/2003

Caltech Boasts Silver Medal Winners at the 34th International Physics Olympiad

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology adds two silver medals to its list of distinguished honors, won by freshmen Emily Russell and Yernur Rysmagambetov, at the 34th International Physics Olympiad in Taiwan.

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