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NuSTAR Discovers Impossibly Bright Dead Star
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.
TMT Breaks Ground
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).
TMT Groundbreaking Launches New Era of Discovery
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).
KISS: A Think and Do Tank for Space Work
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.
Big Data Summer School Is in Session—Virtually
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."
MOOCs Infographic
Atwater to Receive Applied Physics Prize
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.
Superstring Theorist Honored with Science Writing Prize
08/15/2014

Superstring Theorist Honored with Science Writing Prize

Kathy Svitil
Caltech's Hirosi Ooguri has been selected to receive the Kodansha Prize for Science Books, Japan's only major prize for science books, for his popular science work, Introduction to Superstring Theory.
The Birth and Death of Our Solar System
08/05/2014

The Birth and Death of Our Solar System

Cynthia Eller
An interview with Konstantin Batygin, who recently joined the Caltech faculty as assistant professor of planetary science.
Konstantin Batygin
TMT Construction Gets Green Light
07/28/2014

TMT Construction Gets Green Light

Kathy Svitil
The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources has given the official green light for construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna Kea, home to many of the world's premier astronomical observatories.
50 Years of Quarks
07/22/2014

50 Years of Quarks

Douglas Smith
Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann simplified the world of particle physics in 1964 by standing it on its head. He theorized that protons—subatomic particles as solid as billiard balls and as stable as the universe—were actually cobbled together from bizarre entities, dubbed "quarks," whose properties are unlike anything seen in our world. Unlike protons, quarks cannot be separated from their fellows and studied in isolation; despite this, our understanding of the universe is built on their amply documented existence.
Yuval Ne'eman and Murray Gell-Mann in 1964.
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