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10/15/2014

Getting To Know Super-Earths

Kimm Fesenmaier

Results from NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission have indicated that the most common planets in the galaxy are super-Earths—those that are bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Heather Knutson and her colleagues are using space telescopes to try to find out more about these worlds.

10/14/2014

Remembering Tom Tombrello

Douglas Smith

Thomas Anthony Tombrello, Caltech's Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics, passed away on September 23, 2014, at age 78. His studies of nuclear reactions in the 1960s helped show how chemical elements are created.

10/13/2014

Watson Lecture: Quantum States of Matter in Crystals

Douglas Smith

David Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics at Caltech, is searching for new forms of matter that exhibit weird quantum properties in bulk. Find out the why, where, and how at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.

10/08/2014

Caltech Physics Professors Earn NASA Medals

Douglas Smith

Jamie Bock, professor of physics at Caltech and a senior research scientist at JPL, and Caltech Professor of Physics Christopher Martin were among those receiving NASA Honor Awards in a ceremony on Tuesday, September 16.

10/08/2014

NuSTAR Discovers Impossibly Bright Dead Star

Kimm Fesenmaier

Astronomers working with NuSTAR have found a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. The object, previously thought to be a black hole because it is so powerful, is in fact a pulsar—the incredibly dense rotating remains of a star.

10/07/2014

TMT Breaks Ground

Kathy Svitil

Today at 3 p.m. PDT, a groundbreaking and blessing ceremony approximately 14,000 feet above sea level, near the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea, will officially kick off construction for the next-generation Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

10/07/2014

TMT Groundbreaking Launches New Era of Discovery

Marcus Woo

Construction officially has begun near the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea on what will be the largest telescope on the planet: the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

09/15/2014

KISS: A Think and Do Tank for Space Work

Kimm Fesenmaier

The Keck Institute for Space Studies was created at Caltech to develop revolutionary concepts and technology for future space missions by taking advantage of opportunities for increased collaboration between researchers on campus and at JPL.

09/04/2014

Big Data Summer School Is in Session—Virtually

Kathy Svitil

Caltech and JPL are offering an unusual take on the massive open online course (MOOC) model: a two-week-long "virtual summer school" class, providing advanced instruction by experts at Caltech and JPL on the computational skills and methods used in the analysis of complex data sets—that is, of "big data."

08/21/2014

Atwater to Receive Applied Physics Prize

Kathy Svitil

The annual prize recognizes researchers who have made "an outstanding and innovative contribution" to the field of applied physics.

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