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Test Your Quantum Knowledge with These Jeopardy Clues From Caltech's Spiros Michalakis
04/14/2023

Test Your Quantum Knowledge with These Jeopardy Clues From Caltech's Spiros Michalakis

Andrew Moseman
The Jeopardy! category celebrates World Quantum Day this Friday, April 14.
Spiros Michalakis wearing a blue shirt and a baseball hat that reads
Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Caltech
04/12/2023

Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Caltech

Julia Ehlert
The former Caltech postdoctoral alumna shared the story of her career and time in space as the first Black woman to crew the ISS.
Jessica Watkins poses for a photo with the crowd in Beckman Auditorium
Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles
04/06/2023

Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

Robert Perkins
Like a rope breaking strand by strand, solar flares kink and break when too much current flows through them, triggering massive blasts of X-rays
Simulated loop
Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?
03/10/2023

Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?

Whitney Clavin
LIGO researchers are developing early-warning software to nab neutron-star mergers more quickly .
Artwork of colliding neutron stars
Physicists Create New Model of Ringing Black Holes
02/21/2023

Physicists Create New Model of Ringing Black Holes

Whitney Clavin
New analysis shows “nonlinear” effects contained in gravitational waves.
Simulation of a black hole merger.
"Green Comet" Viewing Event Brings Community Together
02/09/2023

"Green Comet" Viewing Event Brings Community Together

Julia Ehlert
Caltech’s astronomy outreach group hosted an event for community members to see and learn about the “green comet” discovered by Caltech-led Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Palomar Observatory.
A cluster of stars as seen through a telescope's eyepiece, with a glowing green blob in the middle
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Decommissioning Update
01/19/2023

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Decommissioning Update

The removal and restoration of the site is expected to be completed during 2023.
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Do Electrons Spin?
01/17/2023

Do Electrons Spin?

Whitney Clavin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Chip Sebens thinks they do thanks to their fields.
Illustration of electron spin
#SoCaltech: Sandra O'Neill
01/17/2023

#SoCaltech: Sandra O'Neill

Caltech Magazine
Sandra O’Neill, a fourth-year undergraduate student, co-authored a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in February 2022 that showed evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date.
Sandra O'Neill wearing a black shirt and jeans, standing in front of an image of outer space
How Do Rocky Planets Really Form?
01/12/2023

How Do Rocky Planets Really Form?

Robert Perkins
A new theory could explain the origin and properties of systems of rocky super-Earths and their relationship with the terrestrial planets of the solar system.
Batygin Planet Factory
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