PASADENA, CA – Viraj Karambelkar, a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been selected as a 2025 fellow in the esteemed NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Out of over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incoming Caltech president Ray Jayawardhana speaks during an announcement ceremony on campus in Pasadena on Tuesday. (Christina ...

Former Dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Ray Jayawardhana, has been named the next president of the California Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday at a community-wide gathering ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades. When you ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of ...

Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Catholic school in Pasadena is speaking out against a construction project that has some community members worried about security and traffic hazards. Caltech wants to ...

A Pasadena home where Caltech students once climbed a steep flight of steps for weekly economics seminars with their professor is on the market for $1.68 million. Completed in 1935, this one-level ...