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05/07/2015

NuSTAR Observations Hold Key to Supernova Mysteries

Ker Than

New findings support some of the fundamental theories and supercomputer model predictions made at Caltech about the lopsided inner workings of these explosive stellar giants.

05/05/2015

Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang

Douglas Smith

For a brief instant after the Big Bang, the universe flew apart at speeds faster than light; the gravitational waves from this expansion sowed the seeds of galaxies. Caltech professor Jamie Bock is hunting for an echo of these waves in the cosmic microwave background.

04/29/2015

Simon Wins International Mathematics Prize

Lorinda Dajose

Barry Simon, the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, has been awarded the International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics for 2015 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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.

04/24/2015

Theoretical Physicist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Lorinda Dajose

Sean Carroll, a research professor of physics, was awarded the mid-career fellowship, which recognizes those who have "demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

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)

04/02/2015

Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid in Lunar Orbit

Kimm Fesenmaier

Thirty two students from around the world converged on campus to test their space mission design skills. Their task? To design the best manned mission to an asteroid placed in orbit around the moon . . . in just five days.

03/30/2015

New Center Expands Hunt for Gravitational Waves

Kathy Svitil

A $14.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation will help with the creation and operation of a multi-institution Physics Frontiers Center.

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