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 ...

The Pasadena Design Commission Tuesday, Jan. 27, unanimously approved concept design review for a four-story research and development Caltech building next door to a local Catholic church and school.

The Pasadena Design Commission on Tuesday, Jan. 27, is expected to face significant push back when it considers approving the concept design review of a four-story Caltech research building located ...

Pasadena’s Caltech is getting its next leader starting this summer. The venerated research institution announced last week that Ray Jayawardhana will become president effective July 1. He will replace ...

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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 ...

Caltech has selected astrophysicist and Johns Hopkins University provost Ray Jayawardhana as its next president. Who he is: According to his introduction video, Jayawardhana goes by "Ray Jay." His ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Caltech president and Nobel laureate David Baltimore died on Saturday, Sept. 6, his wife confirmed on Sunday. He was 87. Baltimore was in hospice care in Massachusetts, where his family has a ...