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04/29/2015

JPL News: NuSTAR Captures Possible Beacons from Dead Stars

Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays.

04/21/2015

"Combing" Through Terahertz Waves

Kimm Fesenmaier

New device created by Caltech chemists opens the door for many new applications in a variety of fields from astronomy to chemistry and beyond.

04/06/2015

JPL News: NASA Selects 2015 Carl Sagan Fellows

NASA has selected six scientists as recipients of the 2015 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships.

04/06/2015

Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships

Douglas Smith

Caltech seniors Adam Jermyn and Charles Tschirhart have been named 2015 Hertz Fellowship winners. Selected from a pool of approximately 800 applicants, the awardees will receive up to five years of support for their graduate studies.

2015 Hertz Foundation Fellows Charles Tschirhart (left) and Adam Jermyn (right)

01/30/2015

Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Remain Elusive

A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the birth of our universe.

01/28/2015

Knutson Receives AAS Award for Outstanding Research

Lorinda Dajose

Heather Knutson, assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, has been awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

01/23/2015

Batygin Named to Forbes's "30 Under 30" List

Lorinda Dajose

Konstantin Batygin (MS '10, PhD '12), an assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, was recently included in Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the science category, and described by the editors as being "the next physics rock star."

01/21/2015

SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica

Kimm Fesenmaier

SPIDER, an instrument carrying six Caltech-made telescopes, just landed after 16 days drifting in the wind above Antarctica searching for signs of inflation in the earliest moments of the universe.

01/21/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the AAAS

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech Professor of Astronomy George Djorgovski and chemist Bruce Brunschwig are among the 401 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2014.

01/07/2015

Clues In the Quasar

Ramanuj Basu

Caltech researchers discover a light signal that hints at an extremely close pair of super-massive black holes.

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