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Quantum sensors may revolutionize high-energy particle detection

Physicists turn to quantum technology to navigate the chaos of next-gen particle collisions.

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Researchers have quantified the speed of human thought

The paradoxical slowness of human behavior.

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Air pollution from AI costs $20 billion and 1,300 deaths a year

UC Riverside and Caltech study reveals AI’s toxic air pollution footprint and toll on people’s health.

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New study reveals how neurons regulate organ-specific functions

The autonomic nervous system arranges the functions of internal organs and acts as a link between the brain and the body. These functions are...

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Graphene extends batteries life and efficiency

Since Lithium-ion batteries have witnessed a growing application in portable electronics and electric vehicles, researchers are keen to improve their performance and cost further....

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Biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen

That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.

The EBCare mask can analyze the chemicals in one's breath in real time.

Smart mask can be used to monitor a range of medical conditions

The state-of-the-art masks monitor breath for signs of health.

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Researchers use traffic noise to measure soil moisture

New method relies upon seismic technology that normally measures how the ground shakes during earthquakes.

An incident laser beam (green) hits Caltech's new space-time metasurface and gets modulated by tunable, nanostructured antennas, creating steerable beams of light at different frequencies (blue) that could be used as optical channels for transmitting data on Earth or in space.

Caltech’s nanoscale device can reflect and direct light in desired ways

The innovation is pointing the way to future wireless communication channels.

Clear experimental skull implant may enable functional ultrasound imaging of the brain for patients with serious head injuries.

New brain imaging technique uses a transparent window in patient’s skull

Functional ultrasound imaging can record brain activity through a transparent skull implant.

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Enceladus’s plume strength may be due to the movement of tiger-stripe faults

Enceladus spills its guts through strike–slip motion.

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An obscure class of galaxies briefly awakens sleeping supermassive black holes

Radio observations of Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) provide new clues about their origins.

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Improving quantum computing using polarization

Paving the way for quantum imaging in many different fields.

Glowing jellyfish swim deep in blue sea.

Caltech researchers create bionic jellyfish to explore deep sea

Robotic jellyfish explore the oceans on our behalf, reporting back what they find.

California Supervolcano is Cooling Off but May Still Cause Quakes

Most detailed underground images to date of the Long Valley Caldera

California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakes.

Hubbard exciton

Physicists detected excitons that are bound via magnetism

"Hubbard excitons" could eventually lead to novel technologies

Wenxin Zhang

A new fabrication technique for 3D printing objects a thousand times smaller

Scientists reinvented the technique to allow for printing objects a thousand times smaller: 150 nanometers.

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Invar alloys stay the same size when heated

The Invar effect: A thermodynamic explanation.

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Astronomers have discovered a two-faced star

Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.

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The evolution of 3D printing nanoscale optical devices

Inversely constructed 3D-patterned mid-infrared metaoptics.

Earth formation

Earth formed from dry, rocky building blocks, study

Our planet's water must have arrived late in the history of Earth's formation.

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Strong hints of monster gravitational waves warping the Galaxy

A collective hum of gravitational waves from many pairs of merging black holes throughout the universe.

Artist's concept of a collection of pulsars

Evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves

The waves oscillate very slowly over years and even decades.

Caltech’s new Morphobot flies, rolls, walks, tumbles and more.

Caltech’s new Morphobot flies, rolls, walks, tumbles, and more

The bio-inspired 'transformer' can move in a wide range of ways, saving energy and making it more versatile.

Quantum Information

Storing quantum information as sound waves

A new method for efficiently translating electrical quantum states into sound.

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