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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Trustee Couple Commits $50 Million To Caltech’s Aerospace Department

The California Institute of Technology has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa ...
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‘Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire,’ Live With Francois Tissot At Caltech’s Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series

Learn about investigations into lead contamination after the 2025 L.A. Fires and how they can help communities prepare for ...
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Caltech’s latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...
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Couple commits $50M to Caltech’s aerospace department

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and ...
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Caltech time-traveling illusion tricks the brain into seeing things that aren't there

Researchers at Caltech have revealed two illusions illustrating how our brain can be tricked into seeing something that isn't really there. The phenomenon is known as postdiction, and highlights how ...
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The Eaton Fire Hit Caltech Scientists Close to Home. Now, They’re Studying the Toxic Aftermath

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...
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Caltech’s Century Of Art And Science Colliding

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. One of the most interesting and surprising PST Art and Science Collide exhibits was not ...
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Alarming lead levels appear on surfaces around Eaton Fire burn area

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Researchers at Caltech have been collecting samples from dozens of homes in and around Altadena since the Eaton Fire burned hundreds of homes in the area in January. The ...
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Caltech pulls off a trick that scientists thought was impossible

Engineers manage to intertwine several qubits at once, taking the biggest leap yet toward a functional quantum internet.
New Atlas

Surprisingly slow speed of human thought calculated by Caltech

We all like to think of ourselves as quick-witted, but a new study from Caltech calculates that our brains process information at the extremely slow speed of around 10 bits per second. This leisurely ...
Los Angeles Times

Caltech professor resigns after investigation finds he harassed female grad students

A Caltech astrophysics professor found by an internal investigation to have harassed two female graduate students has resigned, the university announced. Christian Ott, who campus officials determined ...