Meet the Caltech physicist growing "designer snowflakes" in his lab Why snowflakes look like they do is still poorly understood. Physicist Kenneth Libbrecht is trying to figure it out ...

Edward C. Stone, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Stone succeeds current director Lew Allen, Jr ...

Reached by phone in his Caltech lab, Benzer, 83, and still an active professor, wryly explained why the university’s project was worthwhile. Scientists, Benzer said, “once they’re dead, they ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially ...

Caltech will also accept, in lieu of a high school calculus, physics or chemistry course, a score of 5 on AP exams and a score of 6 or 7 on International Baccalaureate exams in those subjects.

"There are numerous challenges involved in developing a membrane that could ultimately be used as lightsail. It needs to withstand heat, hold its shape under pressure, and ride stably along the axis ...

On the same day Rankin arrived at CalTech, Voyager 1 made history in 2012 as the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ... Currently, the Princeton Space Physics Lab is building a way ...