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Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years

Caltech honors four visionary alumni with the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award for groundbreaking contributions spanning computer science, media technology, space instrumentation, and neuroscience.

Pawel Janas looks to the Great Depression to learn more about the relationship between job markets and secondary school attendance

Quantum acoustics devices may have applications in quantum computers and biophysics.

Long Cai and collaborators showed that a single tissue image can reveal how cells coordinate over weeks of development, uncovering an intrinsic clock in the support cells that help organize this process.

Oscar Mandel, author, playwright, and professor of literature, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on May 20, 2026. He was 99 years old.

The theoretical chemist and bioengineer join the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence

The Caltech community gathered to celebrate employee service and honor President Thomas F. Rosenbaum in his final year as president.

Caltech students' years of leadership and service with Science Olympiad inspire younger people to explore science and engineering

Engineer Fernando Mier-Hicks inspects a test stand used to investigate the performance of next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades at high speeds inside

The new autofocus technique could eliminate much of the labor involved in high-throughput microscopy

The merit-based honor, awarded to 30 students nationwide each year, recognizes outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants on the cusp of graduate study.

At DiscoTech, admitted students got a firsthand look at life at the Institute and a chance to see themselves in it.

From identifying cancer cells to tracking the behavior of bacteria, a new algorithm helps make sense of volumes of biological imaging data

Enabled by funding from a De Logi Science and Technology Grant, Caltech's home-built instrument allows scientists to create thin films from "uncooperative" materials

Caltech researchers identify geomorphological signatures of a long-gone ocean on Mars