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01/26/2017

NAS Honors LIGO Researchers

Whitney Clavin

The National Academy of Sciences is honoring five members of the LIGO team with two distinguished prizes.

aerial photo of the LIGO facility in Livingston, Lousiana

01/24/2017

Problem Solving, One Avocado at a Time

Judy Hill

For the handful of students in Caltech's legendary Physics 11 seminar, jumping over hurdles is just the beginning.

01/24/2017

NuSTAR Observes 'Chameleon Supernova'

The supernova SN 2014C dramatically changed in appearance over the course of a year, surprising astronomers.

01/12/2017

New Instrument Poised to Image the Cosmic Web

Whitney Clavin

A Caltech team has designed and built a new imaging spectrograph to map streams of gas that feed forming galaxies.

01/11/2017

2017 Pierce Prize Goes to Evan Kirby

Whitney Clavin

Evan Kirby has won the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, an annual award presented by the American Astronomical Society.

01/06/2017

The Case of the 'Missing Link' Neutron Star

A mysterious neutron star has been caught behaving like two distinct objects—a radio pulsar and a magnetar.

01/03/2017

A Gift of History, a Gift for the Future

The path that the late Nobel laureate Donald Glaser (PhD ’50) cut in the scientific world was distinctively Caltech.

12/20/2016

Caltech Computes

Robert Perkins

Now a decade old, Caltech's Information Science and Technology initiative is uniting disciplines across campus by offering new and more effective ways of tackling previously intractable challenges.

12/16/2016

The Mechanical Universe Now on YouTube

Jon Nalick

The critically acclaimed television series The Mechanical Universe… And Beyond, created at Caltech and broadcast on PBS from 1985-86, is now available in its entirety on YouTube.

Image of spaceships and vector math symbols

12/09/2016

Harvey Newman Receives Department of Energy Award

Whitney Clavin

Caltech's Harvey Newman has been granted a lifetime achievement award by the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of High Energy Physics.

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