The first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
The Hole Picture
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How a revolutionary solar-powered water pump is transforming the lives of small-plot farmers in India How a revolutionary solar-powered water pump is transforming the lives of small-plot farmers in India
Great and Small
A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses
Richard Jali
BS ’55
Kurt M. Mislow
PhD ’47
Michael Rosbash (BS ’65) Wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Caltech Distinguished Alumni Michael Rosbash (BS '65), the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and professor of biology at Brandeis University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
Kip S. Thorne (BS ’62) Awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)
Nine Moments from the Cassini Mission that Shaped the Journey
Jupiter Flyby: I remember seeing our first image of Jupiter as we approached in late 2000 for our Jupiter flyby. We were so far away—about ½ the distance between the Earth and the Sun—and yet the detail was outstanding. I knew then that we were in for a remarkable...
Caltech C Club Members Rally to Endow New Graduate Fellowship
James Zhu likes to think that the newly endowed Caltech C Graduate Fellowship he helped create had its origins 1.3 billion years ago, with the violent collision of two monster black holes. In summer 2016, a few months after the Caltech- and MIT-operated Laser...
The Adventure Continues
In Memoriam | Lt Col Eric “Doc” Schultz (PhD ’00)
Eric Schultz (PhD ’00), age 44, was a test pilot in the US Air Force.
Brig. Gen. Gilbert William Kirby, Jr.
MS ’56