Sep 18, 2017 | Alumni News
Cassini’s Final Plunge It ended with a bang and with a whisper. Closing out a chapter of the study of Saturn and its moons and rings, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn on September 15, burning up as it streaked across...
Sep 18, 2017 | Alumni News
Sorting Molecules with DNA Robots Imagine a robot that could help you tidy your home: roving about, sorting stray socks into the laundry and dirty dishes into the dishwasher. While such a practical helper may still be the stuff of science fiction, Caltech scientists...
Sep 16, 2017 | Alumni News
The Giving Reflex Peter Hung has seen Caltech from a variety of angles—as an undergraduate, a graduate student, an award-winning instructor, a research mentor, an alumnus, and a donor. His story is a case study in what Caltech gives to its community, and how that...
Sep 14, 2017 | Alumni News
First On-chip Nanoscale Optical Quantum Memory Developed For the first time, an international team led by engineers at Caltech has developed a computer chip with nanoscale optical quantum memory. Quantum memory stores information in a similar fashion to the way...
