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01/11/2018

Flat Metasurface Optics: Watson Lecture Preview

Andrei Faraon will discuss how nanotechnology enables new ways to make optical components.

01/11/2018

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Lorinda Dajose

A group of 10,000 citizen scientists from all over the world helped to identify signals from five planets orbiting a distant star.

Artist's visualization of an exoplanetary system

01/05/2018

Caltech Instrument Achieves "First Light"

A new Caltech-built instrument at Keck Observatory has captured its first spectral image.

01/05/2018

Caltech's Instrument Makers

In this 2017 address, President Rosenbaum discusses the history, future, and critical importance of the instruments designed and built by Caltech researchers.

12/21/2017

New Faculty Join Caltech in 2017

In 2017, Caltech welcomed 20 new faculty members to the Institute's six divisions—specialists in fields ranging from entomology to quantum physics.

photo of wistaria on Arms Laboratory at Caltech

12/20/2017

Neutron Star Jet Hits a Roadblock

Whitney Clavin

Light detected from a neutron star merger is not from a super-fast jet as previously suspected, but rather a bubble-like cocoon.

12/08/2017

Stripes and the Riddle of Superconductivity

Whitney Clavin

Striped patterns of electrical charges may help crack mystery of high-temperature superconducting materials.

Illustration shows the “rivers of charge”

12/04/2017

Public Input Sought on CSO

Caltech is proceeding to decommission the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) on Hawaii Island's Maunakea. CSO began operations in 1987 and ceased scientific observations in September 2015.