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By Etopia Media a June 27, 2006, video interview with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Vice Provost and Professor of Physics David Goodstein, in which he discusses his 2004 book, "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil," and other subjects dealing with global energy sustainability, includi...

A California Institute of Technology graduate student has been re-sentenced to federal prison for helping firebomb dozens of SUVs in an environmental protest in the San Gabriel Valley.

On November 14, the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) hosted a concert on campus featuring the alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. The concert took place outdoors just south of Winnett Student Center, where the band performed songs from their thr...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's disease in a variety of mouse models.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a si...

Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the place of the antibodies used in many standard medical diagnos...

Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have provided evi...

 NY Pasadena, Calif.—As the US Secretary of Energy and hundreds of graduates and their families looked on, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) president Jean-Lou Chameau began today's commencement ceremony by announcing $30 million in gifts as the ...

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By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not expand when heated, as does nearly every normal metal, and ac...

PASADENA, Calif.—By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not expand when ...

In research published in the journal Science, researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) describe the aerodynamic secret of the enchanting swirling seeds. The research, led by David ...

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Science Centric ScienceDaily (June 10, 2009) — Championing the modern-day use of solar eclipses to solve a set of modern problems is the goal of a review article written by Jay Pasachoff, visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Field ...

press release) spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

PASADENA, Calif.—Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an ...

Market Wire (press release) Cantronic, through its US subsidiary QWIP Technologies, Inc. ("QWIPTECH"), holds a worldwide, exclusive license from the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") to produce and sell infrared detectors and sensors based on Caltech's Quantum Well ...

 CA Three seniors from the California Institute of Technology have received Fulbright Fellowships to pursue graduate work abroad, Caltech announced. Alex Hudson is beginning a one-year program in theoretical chemistry at the University of Oxford; ...

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 TX JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov .

 CA JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov . ...

 CA KABC) -- California Institute of Technology has a reputation for pranks and practical jokes, which are usually aimed at other colleges and universities. However, on Wednesday, all the mischief was on their Pasadena campus. Caltech is one of the ...

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press release) Mantarakis received a bachelor of science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a master of science from the University of Arizona, and an executive program MBA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). ...

press release), Germany NuSTAR is a partnership of many of the most prominent research facilities in the world led by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and is defined as “a pathfinder mission that will open the high energy ...

 CA Zewail is a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and director of the school's recently established Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

 UK Richard Massey is an astronomy fellow at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and is a visiting associate in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gisa Weszkalnys, is an anthropologist at the University of Oxford who studies the ...

press release), PA VIASPACE subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation owns a portfolio of fuel cell patents licensed from Pasadena-based California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the direct methanol fuel ...

by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

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 CA by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

 DC That's what a team from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena set out to answer. First, the researchers fabricated a pair of planks only a few hundred nanometers wide out of silicon microchip material. Then they chemically etched ...

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 CA The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, supports the United States astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information is online at ...

 CA JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

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 HI The California Institute of Technology will begin decommissioning the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in 2016. The university plans to return the site to its natural state by 2018. The 10-meter radio telescope will be replaced by a 25-meter telescope ...

 CA PASADENA - The California Institute of Technology has named Peter deCourcy Hero as its new vice president for development and alumni relations. Hero, former senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in ...

See the Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology (TACIT) performance of "Life of Galileo" directed by Brian Brophy. There will be a special performance on May 16 for Caltech Alumni Weekend at 6pm.

By Tom NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and buil...

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles, reported the development in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The latest development, Reynolds said, shows development progressing from research into something manufactu...

By steve hsu 1) 10 campuses of the University of California System, 390 patents 2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 136 patents 3) California Institute of Technology, 101 patents 4) Stanford University and the University of Texas, each with 90 patents each.

A new $4.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, to develop techniques to turn brain cells on and off in animals as they go about their daily activities, allowing...

The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.97 million to the California Institute of Technology for computer software to analyze neutron-scattering experiments. This work could show how to design new materials for a huge variety of applications in transportation, construct...

Jack DuVall, president and founding director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, will give a presentation entitled "The Right of Resistance: The Legitimacy of Civic Force and Its Support," at the California Institute of Technology on Thursday, May 11, at 8 p.m. in the Be...