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06/02/2016

Kavli Prize Goes to LIGO Founders

Whitney Clavin

The $1 million Kavli Prize in Astrophysics has been awarded to the three founders of LIGO.

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.

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