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A White Dwarf Living on the Edge
06/30/2021

A White Dwarf Living on the Edge

Whitney Clavin
The Zwicky Transient Facility has identified an extremely ...
Artwork of a white dwarf in comparison to Earth's moon.
LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars
06/29/2021

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars

The gravitational network confirms first known collision of a black ...
Artwork of a neutron star–black hole merger
Caltech Celebrates Progress in Diversity and Inclusion in Recruitment and Admissions
06/21/2021

Caltech Celebrates Progress in Diversity and Inclusion in Recruitment and Admissions

Jennifer Torres and Lori Oliwenstein
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Student Jennifer Rodriguez stands with her luggage in front of the Moore Laboratory of Engineering
Expanding the WAVE Pipeline
06/21/2021

Expanding the WAVE Pipeline

Judy Hill
WAVE Fellows program for underrepresented students in STEM to ...
Graduate student Rebekah Loving with Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences Lior Pachter
Virtual Learning Helped Push Caltech Physics Labs into the Future
06/10/2021

Virtual Learning Helped Push Caltech Physics Labs into the Future

Andrew Moseman
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Portrait of Eric Black
CIBER-2 Takes Its First Flight
06/07/2021

CIBER-2 Takes Its First Flight

The instrument to measure a cosmic infrared glow will take multiple short flights aboard a sounding rocket.
Richard Feder-Staehle, Chi Nguyen, and Rick Evavold of the CIBER-2 team working on the CIBER-2 payload.
Magnetism Drives Metals to Insulators in New Experiment
06/04/2021

Magnetism Drives Metals to Insulators in New Experiment

Whitney Clavin
New study provides tools to probe novel spintronic devices.
An illustration of domains divided by a domain wall.
From Caltech Magazine: Crossing Paths
05/27/2021

From Caltech Magazine: Crossing Paths

The two most recent Nobel Prize-winning Caltech alumni talk with a fellow alum about their work, their campus experiences, and life ...
Nobel Prize medallion and partial torch from Caltech seal
Giant Planets Found in the Stellar Suburbs
05/26/2021

Giant Planets Found in the Stellar Suburbs

Whitney Clavin
Planetary census illuminates where giant planets tend to reside ...
The three telescopes used in the California Legacy Survey are the Shane telescope, and the Automated Planet Finder, both at Lick Observatory, and the W.M. Keck Observatory.
Hertz Graduate Fellows Announced
05/18/2021

Hertz Graduate Fellows Announced

Whitney Clavin
Fellowships will fund graduate work for Caltech undergrad ...
Emily Geyman, Nathanael Kazmierczak, and Alexander Zlokapa