Researchers in the lab of Frances Arnold have used directed evolution to improve antibiotic production and make the medicines used against the deadly disease more accessible.

Sujit Datta and colleagues can now quantify and predict how bacteria in the complex environment will grow in single-file chains, form kinks, and then tangle.

Chemists from the two institutions will work together to identify projects and then mentor postdocs and host graduate students, enabling researchers to experience multiple environments while seeding additional collaboration

Garnet Chan's team has figured out how to quantitatively model the Kondo effect for seven elements embedded in copper

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

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.

The tool is the first in what researchers hope will be a new class of train-and-assist devices to simultaneously help address the shortage of trained clinical testing personnel and the need for widespread diagnostic testing

These crucial turning points helped make the country a global chemical leader

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

The distinction honors "pioneers and changemakers in their fields"

Karthish Manthiram and his colleagues have developed a process for generating the common chemicals without a large carbon footprint or toxic byproducts using a nonprecious metal catalyst

Undergraduate Sam Foxman and incoming graduate student Nikhil Seshadri join a cohort recognized for their exceptional promise in applied science, engineering, and mathematics.

Music and mentorship can be found in the office of this biochemist. By Omar Shamout If you were to walk into Bil Clemons’s office in Braun Laboratories, it is likely that his 6-year-old Aussie do...

Graduate student Anjali Gurajapu has been awarded the Future Leaders Award by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. The award provides the opportunity for early career scientists to…

The biochemist joins 59 other Caltech faculty members and trustees who are members of the academy

In this work, authors provide evidence that bacteria in spatially structured populations protect each other from antibiotics through collective nutrient consumption, creating ‘death fronts’ that sweep...

The Malcom Prize honors a professor who "supports the achievement and well-being of students"

The Feynman Prize is Caltech's highest teaching honor

The Malcom Prize honors a professor who "supports the achievement and well-being of students"

Caltech mineralogist George Rossman (PhD '71) passed away on February 6, 2026.

Can we reimagine the way we power modern life? On Wednesday, February 25, 2026, Kimberly See, professor of chemistry, will discuss her group’s research on next-generation battery chemistry that may…

Functional studies of O-GlcNAcylation have often focused on individual modifications. Now, a systems-level approach has identified simultaneous O-GlcNAcylation events that coordinate cellular activiti...

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