If you’ve ever wondered about the battery waste generated by modern technology, from electric cars to laptops to flashlights, you’re not alone. It’s a central focus of the research of chemistry ...

Join Caltech on campus for a free lecture and Q&A about the historical and current dangers of lead contamination. In 1965, Caltech geochemist Clair Patterson published what was, at the time, a highly ...

A Pasadena home where Caltech students once climbed a steep flight of steps for weekly economics seminars with their professor is on the market for $1.68 million. Completed in 1935, this one-level ...

This course will introduce key concepts and techniques used to work with large datasets, in the context of the field of astrophysics. The school will focus on modern approaches to creating and ...

This event is free and open to the public with a general admission ticket. Reserve Your Seat Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum is a pioneering physicist and expert in the promising field of quantum ...

Cosmology seeks to explain the origins of our universe. Like an archaeologist uncovering artifacts from the distant past, observational cosmologists search for signals from space—relics of our ...

- Is There Such a Thing as Evil? In her second Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there’s such a thing as “evil”? In a career spanning nearly 40 years the forensic psychiatrist has heard many of ...

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12:45 p.m. Aug. 2, 2023: A previous version of this column said Caltech physicist Richard Tolman died by suicide. He died of a heart attack. "Oppenheimer" has been justly praised for its attempt at ...