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03/06/2025

What I Learned About Earth After a Year on "Mars"

Elise Cutts

Ross Brockwell (MS '01) served as the flight engineer on NASA's first CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission, a simulated mission to Mars carried out on Earth under the watchful eyes of NASA scientists and engineers.

A picture of the four members of the The CHAPEA crew as they leave their simulated Mars mission July 6, 2024, at NASA's Johnson Space Center

02/27/2025

New Ocelot Chip Makes Strides in Quantum Computing

Whitney Clavin

Based on "cat qubits," the technology provides a new way to reduce quantum errors

02/26/2025

Two Caltech Professors Lead Missions About to Launch Back-to-Back into Space

Whitney Clavin

As principal investigators, the faculty members are responsible for each mission's success

02/21/2025

What Hundreds of Millions of Galaxies Can Teach Us About the Big Bang

Whitney Clavin

NASA's SPHEREx mission will provide new clues about the explosive, inflationary phase of our universe.

An artist's rendition of SPHEREx in space

02/18/2025

Trio of Caltech Professors Named Sloan Fellows

Whitney Clavin

Scott Cushing, Ryan Hadt, and Kareem El-Badry awarded with Sloan fellowships.

The 2025 Sloan Fellows Scott Cushing, Kareem El Badry, and Ryan Hadt

02/13/2025

AI Program Plays the Long Game to Solve Decades-Old Math Problems

Whitney Clavin

A Caltech-led team has developed a new machine-learning algorithm to solve two families of problems related to a decades-old math problem.

A collage of a chessboard against the sky with clouds

01/29/2025

#SoCaltech: Nivedita Mahesh

Jon Nalick

Nivedita Mahesh, the David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Astronomy, is a volunteer dance instructor for the Los Angeles-based dance group Bollypop.