Germ cells, which eventually give rise to eggs and sperm, are the subject of a new $2.4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

New model reveals the sedimentary depth beneath our buildings and informs models of earthquakes

On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision would be driven more by nostalgia than science

A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.

A new framework offered by Anima Anandkumar and colleagues from NVIDIA provides a way to modify existing neural network architectures to work more naturally with the physical world

What we can learn from the acceleration of the Pine Island Glacier.

The new optical design suggests even further resolution enhancement could be possible

Machine learning has enabled powerful biological discoveries using models trained on large datasets. However, for many important biological questio...

New analysis of the Allende meteorite suggests that pre-solar grains nucleated the formation of the solar system's earliest solids.

New findings from Caltech researchers suggest Neptune's smallest satellites formed from the shattered remains of an original moon system that was destroyed when Triton was captured by Neptune's…

Large dataset developed by Caltech and Google reveals new insights on the role of clouds in climate change and offers a novel tool for improving global climate models.

The approach could help scientists around the country determine the 3D structure of hundreds of thousands—and potentially millions—of unknown small molecules

Theo Agapie and Victoria Orphan will lead teams aimed at using AI to make advances in chemical manufacturing and in understanding microorganisms in their real-world settings.

Marcus passed away on July 16. He was 102.

From exoplanets to desert landscapes, Caltech and JPL researchers are leading the development of revolutionary space missions of the future.

This year, 33 Caltech alumni and 19 graduate students have received Graduate Research Fellowships from the the National Science Foundation.

The new light-controlling chip uses one beam of light to redirect another beam almost instantaneously

The Institute aims to equip local governments and organizations with scientific expertise to evaluate one of the most rapidly developing infrastructure challenges of our time.

Mark B. Wise, Caltech's John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics, passed away on July 10, 2026.

Erin Schuman, a former professor at Caltech for nearly two decades, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

Julia R. Greer and members of her lab have developed a new type of electrode that improves the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, while eliminating the hazardous and hard-to-mine…

At an event hosted by the American Institute of Mathematics at Caltech, experts and academics who are focused on number theory convened to discuss how AI might help the field.

Gözde Demirer and a Caltech team have solved a persistent problem in plant engineering by using a genetic element found in some animals.

Caltech is building tools for and shaping approaches to the discipline, which could change the way we live. By Lori Dajose (BS ’15) Billions of years of evolution have slowly, iteratively,…

Soil bacteria flexibly adapt quorum-sensing mechanisms in order to acquire nutrients

A path-breaking scientist propelled by curiosity, Jayawardhana commits to building on the Institute's "unsurpassed legacy of discovery and impact."

A novel chemical reaction could explain the formation of the nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA.