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11/30/2015

How to Power Jet-Driven Supernovae

Kimm Fesenmaier

New simulations show how a dynamo in collapsed massive stars can build the strong magnetic fields needed to power extremely energetic blasts.

11/18/2015

Dark Matter Dominates in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

Lorinda Dajose

A Caltech researcher has measured what could be the highest concentration of dark matter in any known galaxy.

11/12/2015

Simon Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Kathy Svitil

The mathematics and theoretical physics professor has been awarded the 2016 Leroy Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society.

11/03/2015

Celebrating 50 Years of Infrared Astronomy

Douglas Smith

Fifty years ago, Caltech and its self-styled Infrared Army of experimental physicists and astronomers helped to found the discipline of infrared astronomy.

10/27/2015

JPL News: Black Hole Has Major Flare

Two space telescopes have caught a supermassive black hole in the midst of a giant eruption of X-ray light.

10/27/2015

New Research on Europa

Rod Pyle

Using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory's OSIRIS spectrometer and maps from NASA's Galileo probe, researchers have mapped what may be salt deposits from the ocean below the ice onto the Jovian moon's surface.

Europa, as imaged by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

10/26/2015

Physicists Uncover Novel Phase of Matter

Kimm Fesenmaier

It is not a conventional metal, insulator, or magnet. It is something entirely different and could hold the solution to a long-standing mystery related to high-temperature superconductivity.

10/22/2015

Astronomers Find Giant Magnets Inside Stars

Ker Than

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

10/21/2015

Feynman's Nobel Year

Douglas Smith

Fifty years ago on October 21, 1965, Caltech's Richard Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. The three independently brokered workable marriages between 20th-century quantum mechanics and 19th-century electromagnetic field theory.

10/18/2015

Cassini Begins Its Final Act: A Conversation with Charles Elachi

Ramanuj Basu

In September, the NASA/JPL Cassini mission began the last two years of the Solstice Mission. We recently spoke with JPL director Charles Elachi to gain his unique perspective on Cassini's achievements—and what will come next.

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