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The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 11

Observations from the survey camera helped pinpoint the object's path through the solar system. caltech.edu/about/news/zwi…

Caltech's tweet card. Observations from the survey camera helped pinpoint the object's path through the solar system.

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Caltech@Caltech · 7 h

Jennifer Jackson, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Mineral Physics, has been named a vice provost at Caltech. caltech.edu/about/news/jen…

Caltech's tweet card. Jackson, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Mineral Physics, will succeed Kaushik Bhattacharya, the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 23

Hirosi Ooguri, the Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at Caltech, will become the next chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA) on August 16, 2025. caltech.edu/about/news/new…

Caltech's tweet card. Physicist Hirosi Ooguri will become the next chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 23

At any one time, most people are pursuing multiple goals. When confronted with such variety, how do we choose which goals we will attend to at any given time? caltech.edu/about/news/wha…

Caltech's tweet card. Graduate student Sneha Aenugu and John O'Doherty have tested how humans juggle different long-term goals, finding that we tend to over-persist in long-term goals even when switching goals might be...

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 22

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. caltech.edu/about/news/lig…

Caltech's tweet card. Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 10

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings physicists use to represent particle interactions. caltech.edu/about/news/add…

Caltech's tweet card. Marco Bernardi and his colleagues have found a way to sum particle interactions in real materials with quantitative accuracy

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Caltech LCSSP@CaltechLCSSP · Jul 9

We now have 18 (EIGHTEEN❗️) fascinating episodes of Election Science Office Hours available to watch on @YouTube or listen to via podcast on @Apple Podcasts and @Spotify. Visit the @Caltech Election Integrity Project's ESOH web page here to catch up! lindeinstitute.caltech.edu/research/lcssp…

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Google Quantum AI@GoogleQuantumAI · Jul 9

New research presents a complete algorithm for ground-state energy estimation, addressing the challenge of imperfect initial state preparation. We detail more efficient matrix-product-state (MPS) preparation and improved energy sampling methods → goo.gle/4dejcUP

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 9

#LetsTalk What is your current STEM obsession? What should more people be talking about? We want to know!

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 9

Quantum field theory is impressive in the predictions it is able to make about phenomena that are later confirmed in the lab. But the way it gets to these successful predictions is, in Sebens's words, "a ton of work. caltech.edu/about/news/cal…

Caltech's tweet card. Professor of Philosophy Chip Sebens explores a variety of paths to calculating the electron's magnetic moment with implications for foundational physics.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 8

New findings show that certain explosive star systems may form with help of third star. caltech.edu/about/news/thi…

Caltech's tweet card. New findings show that certain explosive star systems may form with help of third star.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 7

Over the last five years, Hoelz, Friedman, and other scientists in the field have identified a gene that makes people more susceptible to hearing loss and started exploring ways to strengthen the inner ear hair cells to protect hearing. caltech.edu/about/news/pro…

Caltech's tweet card. Andre Hoelz and Rick Friedman, the skull base surgeon who operated on Hoelz's auditory nerve, have received a Curebound grant to pioneer new ways of protecting the inner ear against hearing loss.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 2

Caltech researchers navigate AI’s shifting landscape and complex future, charting a course for its ethical development and application. magazine.caltech.edu/post/kaleidosc…

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Caltech@Caltech · Jul 1

A Caltech-led team has developed a safe, effective, and painless breast imaging technique that incorporates machine learning to help differentiate between suspicious and healthy tissue. caltech.edu/about/news/ai-…

Caltech's tweet card. The method, which has now been tested on human patients, performs comparably to mammography and MRI without any of the risk or discomfort

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 27

Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer. She was presenting a team with the first "aliveness test" image taken by the agency's space telescope SPHEREx. caltech.edu/about/news/bui…

Caltech's tweet card. How a NASA space telescope came together in a university lab

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 27

Scientists are increasingly finding that the gastrointestinal tract plays a vital role in our overall health. While its main functions center around digestion, the GI tract is also involved in other areas that can affect mood and brain function. caltech.edu/about/news/new…

Caltech's tweet card. PillTrek offers a swallowable way to monitor a variety of biomarkers in the complex environment of the gut

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 26

What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? caltech.edu/about/news/mak…

Caltech's tweet card. A new two-loop system developed by Caltech shows a path to convert the abundant greenhouse gas into an industrially valuable commodity

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 25

Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan are giving us a glimpse of the future of computing. caltech.edu/about/news/new…

Caltech's tweet card. A quantum device can identify key values related to the movements of electrons within chemical systems, enabling classical computers to solve for ground-state energies with less heavy lifting

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 24

New research from Caltech and UC Berkeley has identified the circuit of genes controlling Zebrafish’s ability to regrow and repair their hearts after damage. caltech.edu/about/news/gen…

Caltech's tweet card. New research identifies the genes necessary for zebrafish to regenerate their hearts after damage—work that could ultimately impact the recovery of human patients after heart attacks.

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Caltech@Caltech · Jun 20

How do we know exactly what is happening at a molecular level during extremely fast processes? Understanding which molecules are present gives scientists a way of understanding the inner workings of the chemical processes taking place. caltech.edu/about/news/spe…

Caltech's tweet card. Using clues from polarization changes recorded at hundreds of billions of frames per second, a new ultrafast imaging technique provides a new way to measure molecular size

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