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The results are in!

We’ve been ranked #3 in Interdisciplinary Sciences in association with Schmidt Science Fellows.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A detailed new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of massive dying stars, known as Wolf–Rayet stars, orbiting tightly around each other.

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Rare Star System Gives Insights into the Origins of Carbon Dust in the Galaxy
A new JWST image provides a detailed look at the carbonaceous dust shells thrown off by two extremely rare stars orbiting one another.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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1/3 Some photos from poster session at last month's #ProtectingTheElection: #AIandGovernance Conference at @washupolisci.bsky.social. Great Posters, everyone. Thanks for participating! More photos & videos forthcoming. Co-Organizers Betsy Sinclair & @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltech.edu
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Come to see us at #39 in the graduate school fair of #SfN25 @sfn.org to learn about the wonderful programs in Neuroscience at @caltech.edu. We are here to answer questions about Phd in Computational neuroscience, Neurobiology, MD/PhD and postdocs!
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Please help AWM congratulate the winners of the 2026 Schafer Prizes for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman!

✅ Khyathi Komalan - @caltech.edu
✅ Chloe Marple - @pomonacollege.bsky.social
✅ Saskia Solotko - @tufts.edu

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Tufts University mathematics major and 2026 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize winner Saskia Solotko Pomona College mathematics major and 2026 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize winner Chloe Marple Caltech mathematics major and 2026 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize winner Khyathi Komalan
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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@caltech.edu astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin discusses how AI’s rapid rise is redefining how scientists teach, learn, and innovate. youtube.com/shorts/THqlj...
Caltech Astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin on AI and the Future of Innovation
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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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L'Oréal USA has awarded one of five 2025 For Women in Science grants to Caltech's Georgia Squyres, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dianne Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Merkin Institute Professor.

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Postdoc Awarded L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Grant
Biologist Georgia Squyres receives a research fellowship to study bacterial biofilm communities.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Caltech alum @jimfruchterman.bsky.social joined @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social on campus recently to discuss Jim's book, #TechnologyForGood, during the #BehindTheBook Series at @caltech.edu.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience are closely intertwined. Artificial intelligence was inspired by the human brain, and, in turn, AI can help us better understand the brain's complex inner workings.

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How Can AI Advance Understanding of the Brain?
Discover how AI is revolutionizing neuroscience by analyzing brain data, powering brain–machine interfaces, and creating models to study how the brain works. Explore its potential for medical breakthroughs.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate?

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Precision Genetic Engineering Points to a Future of Sustainable Agriculture
Combining techniques from fundamental biological research reveals cellular mechanisms that could boost crop yield and resilience.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Sujit Datta (Datta Lab) talks to Caltech about "his work and what is so special about all this squishy stuff."

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Studying the Squishy Stuff: A Conversation with Sujit Datta
A Q&A with the professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and biophysics who studies soft, pliable materials, how environmental factors affect them, and vice versa
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October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The annual retreat of @caltech.edu's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) is an opportunity to spend the weekend with some of my favorite scientists. It is always an uplifting and illuminating experience.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The flare, co-discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility, may be the result of a mega black-hole meal.

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Black Hole Flare is Biggest and Most Distant Seen
The flare, co-discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility, may be the result of a mega black-hole meal.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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New analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars' past to a time, some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter.

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Postcards from Ancient Mars: Isotopes Illuminate Early Martian Climate
Oxygen isotopes measured by the Curiosity Rover signify a lake evaporating on Mars around 3.7 billion years ago.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up biofilms, sticky masses of millions of cells that are often responsible for antibiotic-tolerant infections.

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A New Perspective on Bacterial Biofilm Defenses
Biofilms have traditionally been difficult to image, but Caltech researchers are illuminating their development and antibiotic defenses.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Adrián Lozano-Durán, an associate professor of aerospace at Caltech, and MIT graduate student Yuan Yuan, have developed a theorem that takes any number of possible variables and whittles them down, leaving only those that are most important.

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A Unit-Free Shortcut to Better Science
Adrian Lozano-Durán and Yuan Yuan of MIT have derived a theorem that can cut through thousands of possible variables, identifying those that are vital to a model's predictions
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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A pair of distant black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, are improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space collisions in our universe.

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Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups
Two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution
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October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Perona and Belongie wondered if they could replace search words with images, but they knew that it would not be easy to convince people to tediously and appropriately tag every object and its parts in millions of pictures.

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Pietro Perona's Vision: Visipedia and Its Lasting Impact on Computer Vision
The machine learning-driven system for identifying visual information has grown the citizen-science apps Merlin and iNaturalist, led to the development of key datasets, and jump-started the field of i...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Caltech researchers co-lead new study refining what we know about the ghostly particles.

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Neutrino Experiments in U.S. and Japan Join Forces
Caltech researchers team up with Japanese scientists to refine what we know about neutrinos
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October 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, and her colleagues have introduced a new machine learning model called NucleusDiff.

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New AI Model for Drug Design Brings More Physics to Bear in Predictions
Anima Anandkumar and colleagues have added simple physics to their machine learning–based drug-design tool, NucleusDiff
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October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Lihong Wang, the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair and the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Caltech, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). #NAMmtg

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Lihong Wang Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Wang, a leader in developing novel imaging technologies, is among 100 newly named members of the advisory academy.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Introducing X1: The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid's back and, later, drive away.

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Caltech and Technology Innovation Institute Demo Multirobot Response Team
The robotic duo that can walk, fly, and drive across diverse terrain demonstrates the creative power of the three-year collaboration
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October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, lends his expertise in a collaborative piece discussing the potential effects of AI in foreign affairs.
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In the months to come, AI layoffs could trigger a populist backlash, warn @beamagistro.bsky.social, @sborwein.bsky.social, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, and Peter Loewen.

How should policymakers respond to AI’s harmful effects on employment?
The Coming AI Backlash
How the anger economy will supercharge populism.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Through experiments, theory, and computational modeling, scientists have found that the way cells arrange themselves is shaped by oxygen levels and is predictable and controllable, offering insights that could lead to new ways to target infections.

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A Breath of Fresh Air: Bacteria Confined to Droplets Form Complex Patterns
Sujit Datta and his colleagues can explain and predict the surprising spatial arrangements formed within droplets
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October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Caltech researchers have now developed technology to freeze and preserve stem cells from birds that can then be reconstituted to help propagate populations.

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Stem Cell Technique Could Preserve Endangered Bird Species
A new technique enables stem cells from bird species to be frozen and revived
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October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM