Due to warming caused by climate change, the Antarctic ice shelves are melting at an accelerated rate. Most of the melt comes from below the ice shelves, a result...
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces...
Frank Capra (BS 1918), the filmmaker behind It’s a Wonderful Life and a Caltech Distinguished Alumnus, said that college “changed his whole viewpoint,” making him a cultured person. In...
Magma pumping through a massive complex of flat, interconnected chambers deep beneath volcanoes in Hawai‘i appears to be responsible for an unexplained swarm of tiny earthquakes felt on the...
Professor of Biology Henry Lester has been named as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI, election as a fellow is the “highest...