By rss@youtube.com (darkhim85) It will be a real nail-biter on May 25, 2008, for engineers, as the Phoenix spacecraft performs a series of challenging maneuvers right before it lands on Mars. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Author: darkhim85 Keywords: Phoenix Mars Lander nasa hd Added: January 2, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (AskAnAstronomer) Answered by Dr. Carolyn Brinkworth of NASA's Spitzer Science Center Credit: NASA and Caltech Author: AskAnAstronomer Keywords: planet suns galaxy Added: December 13, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (AskAnAstronomer) Answered by Dr. Michelle Thaller of the SIRTF Science Center Credit: NASA and Caltech Author: AskAnAstronomer Keywords: stars born death universe Added: December 13, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (wired) For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own. http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/first-direct-im.html Video courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

By rss@youtube.com (sciencentral) Why are flies so hard to swat? It took the world's top fly researchers at Caltech to give us the answer. ScienCentral's Sunita Reed reports on a finding that will give you pointers the next time you reach for your swatter.

By rss@youtube.com (CaltechGeodynamics) Former Caltech postdoc Lijie Han and graduate student Eh Tan, working with Michael Gurnis, formulated a regional spherical model of the subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath North America. More details at http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/Movies/Science_Captions/caption_f...

By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animation of Cassini's approach and flyby of Enceladus Mar.12, 2008 with a closest approach distance near the equator of about 50 kilometers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: petebkr Keywords: NASA Space Cassini Saturn Enceladus Astronomy Added: August 12, 2008

Caltech Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Steven Low talks about Caltech's Netlab's Internet congestion reduction research and the company, FastSoft, that is commercializing its research, recorded in Pasadena, 6-28-07

By rss@youtube.com (sunday9pm) Exclusive visit of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), part of the Caltech, Pasadena, Los Angeles. Tour by the Chief Scientist of the Mars program, Dan McCleese. Keywords: JPL jet propulsion lab caltech mars NASA pasadena explorer dan mccleese matt golombek rich zurek

By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animated "flyover" of the workspace of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's created from images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 14 (June 8, 2008), or the 14th Martian day after landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University/NASA Ames

By rss@youtube.com (sussitube) The image of Phoenix on its parachute was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

By rss@LiveVideo.com (vrmars) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/MSSS/USGS/OSU/Honeybee Robotics/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - More information at www.vrpresents.com and in this astronomical software. Author: vrmars ...

By rss@youtube.com (Pyxmalion) Spectra of a Jupiter-like by Spitzer space telescope. Video released by NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: Pyxmalion Keywords: exoplanet extrasolar planet jupiter sun atmosphere spectra spitzer telescope science space solar system astronomy Added: February 25, 2007

By Steve Hsu(noreply@blogger.com) E. Bright Wilson was professor of chemistry and member of the National Academy of Sciences, later a recipient of the National Medal of Science. The last quote from Wilson could easily have come from anyone who went to Caltech! Indeed, both E. Bright Wilson and his son, Nobel Laureate Ken Wils...

Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics at Caltech, has been named an envoy in the new U.S. Science Envoy Program, created to foster science and technology collaborations between the United States and nations throughout the Middle...

At 2 p.m. on November 14 in Beckman Auditorium, Shannon Boettcher, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, will introduce and guide a post-screening discussion of Curious--Powering the Planet, an Emmy-nominated program that features Caltech and JPL scientists.

By Nancy Atkinson NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

Caltech will cut the ribbon on its cutting-edge "green" building, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, on October 30 at 9:45 a.m., in a ceremony open to the campus community. President Jean-Lou Chameau and Engineering and Applied Science Divis...

Caltech officially opened the doors of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at a ceremony on October 30. President Jean-Lou Chameau and Engineering and Applied Science Division Chair Ares Rosakis presented remarks, as did architect Frederi...

Thanks, in part, to its famed Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and its historic ties to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech has attracted many students who at some point dreamed of riding a rocket into space. And thus far, 11 of them have actually become NASA astronauts. Lean m...

Victor Beck, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering, will introduce and guide a post-screening discussion of Hubble's Canvas at 2 p.m. on October 24 in Beckman Auditorium. This stunning, high-definition documentary offers a penetrating and spectacular view of the universe...

The newly constructed Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology (IST) has opened its doors to Caltech students, researchers, and professors. For a tour of the center, watch Glass with Class, a slideshow featuring photography accompanied by insights...

By Tom Details and scientific interpretation of these new impact craters and their use to examine subsurface ice at northern mid-latitudes on Mars are captured in a paper published this week in Science by Shane Byrne and 17 colleagues on teams operating the Contect Camera, High Resolution Im...

Caltech alumni Berni Alder, PhD '52, and James Gunn, PhD '66, have been chosen to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. They are among nine scientists and engineers selected this year to receive the award, which President Barack Obama will presen...

NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission will launch in August 2011. NuSTAR will carry the first high-energy X-ray focusing telescopes into orbit, providing a much deeper, clearer view of energetic phenomena such as black holes and sup...

Alums will return to campus next week for Caltech's 12th annual Alumni College. For two days, on September 11 and 12, top scientists and engineers will reflect on Caltech's connection to the cosmos, discussing the missions that are unveiling the secrets of space and the technology that m...

The discovery of an unknown hitherto chemical compound in the atmosphere may help to explain how and when clouds are formed. The discovery of the so called dihydroxyepoxides (an aerosol-precursor), is reported in this week's issue of Science by a team comprising of researchers from the...

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology (IST) is nearly ready to open its doors to Caltech students, staff, and faculty. The building, designed by the architectural firm Frederick Fisher and Partners, has earned LEED Gold certification and will...

By Tom A few new targets from the now "warm" Spitzer Space Telescope. Click for larger (135k). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

By Tom Is "Block Island" a meteor? Click for larger. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Looking at this image from the Mars Rover Opportunity, it appears it is in a sea of sand, with a solitary rock in the foreground - seems quite out of place. —————————

Scientists have devised a new use for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO): probing the quantum behavior of matter at macroscopic scales. LIGO, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and was designed and is operated by Caltech and MIT, was desig...

Over 260 of the country's brightest undergraduate students met at UCLA last week for the third annual Amgen Scholars U.S. Symposium. The three-day event brought together participants in the Amgen Scholars Program, a $27.5 million initiative that gives undergraduates the opportunity fo...

 VA Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S. Park and J. Lee); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. ...

press release) We intentionally picked chemical compositions that do not show Invar behavior because I thought it would confuse our interpretations," says Brent Fultz, a professor of materials science and applied physics at Caltech, and a coauthor of the PRL paper. ...

Other collaborators include Richard Arendt of nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; AC Adwin Boogert of nasa's Herschel Science Center, Caltech in Pasadena; Mathias Schultheis of the Besancon Observatory in France; Susan Stolovy of nasa's ...

press release) Kirschvink and his collaborators Yuk L. Yung, a Caltech professor of planetary science, and graduate students King-Fai Li and Kaveh Pahlevan, say that the solution is to reduce substantially the total pressure of the atmosphere itself, ...

So it is a very early phase in the star formation process," said team member Solange Ramirez of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech. The heart of our galaxy is an extreme environment, with fierce stellar winds, shock waves and a core ...

A team of Dutch and American scientists from Wageningen University and Caltech measured the flow of air created by swirling seeds by creating plastic models of the seeds and spinning them through a large tank of mineral oil using a specially designed ... How maple fruits fall Science News

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press release) Other collaborators include Richard Arendt of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; AC Adwin Boogert of NASA's Herschel Science Center, Caltech in Pasadena; Mathias Schultheis of the Besancon Observatory in France; Susan Stolovy of NASA's ...

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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New Tidal Debris Discovered From Colliding Galaxies press release) before they merge, thus turning back the clock on each merging system," says Dr. Scoville, the Francis L. Moseley professor of astronomy at Caltech. ... and more »

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 ...

The Money Times “It is amazing to me that we have found these stars,” said Solange Ramirez, head researcher at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech. “The galactic center is a very interesting place. It has young stars, old stars, black holes, everything. ...

 DC Credit: (top left) University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; (top right): A. Dupree (CfA)/NASA/ESA; (bottom) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SV Ramírez (NExSci/Caltech)/SST/IRAC/MIPS/IRS By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--Stars have been the, well, ...

and I had to go to Caltech and interview a lot of people who both knew Feynman and understood his work, so I could really understand the physics. ... and more »

Science Centric Jay Pasachoff, a Caltech and Williams College astronomer and planetary scientist, in Tianhuangping, China, not far from Hangzhou or Shanghai. The July event will be the 49th solar eclipse that Pasachoff has viewed. A champion of using eclipse ...

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.

By daveshields By way of background, I have a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech, in 1966. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) of New York University in 1983. The time delay in getting my Ph.D. is due to a combination of my limited skills in mathematics and a love...

The Money Times  CA Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...

 FL Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) Located near the Aquila rift in the Galactic plane at a distance of 23000 light-years, this cloud condensation has a mass 120 times that of the Sun contained within a volume smaller than the ...

 NY Credit: J. Swift, NASA/ JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/Joint Astronomy Center. PASADENA, CALIF. — A massive, tranquil object found lurking in a dark cloud in our galaxy could be about to transform into ...

 CA First we have the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, the famous space lab operated by Caltech for NASA. This duality puts its employees into an odd limbo between the academic freedom traditionally known to university workers and the ...

By ANNIE YOUDERIAN (CN) - The 9th Circuit on Thursday let stand an injunction blocking NASA and Caltech from performing extensive background checks on low-risk employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. In one of three dissents, ...

King Fai Li and his colleagues at Caltech hypothesize that Earth's atmospheric pressure has always varied, and that it could fall in the distant future, keeping Earth from frying for far longer than previous research had shown. ... Thin the Air, Save the Biosphere? Science Now

press release) The work described in the Nature paper, "Hippocampal theta oscillations are travelling waves," was supported by the Caltech Information Science and Technology Center for Biological Circuit Design, a 21st Century McDonnell Foundation Award, ...

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His lectures at Caltech, which are still studied today in book form , are considered classics. Recently, I happened to pick up his 1985 memoir Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman for the first time in many years. And I was surprised to see how many of ...

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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 . ...

 VA I am especially pleased with the choice, which recognizes something universally human and essential to science." Clara Ma, winner of the Mars Science Laboratory naming contest. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ma decided to enter the rover-naming contest ...

 MA It was founded by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Material Science at Caltech (not to be confused with the Howard Hughes Professor of General Craziness and Fingernail Saving). Atwater's group investigates silicon but ...

H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech will describe a new effort to counteract thermal noise and improve the sensitivity of interferometers. He and his colleagues argue that a very slight thermally-induced movement of a mirror's surface owing to thermal noise is ...

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press release) Richard Andersen at Caltech) has been studying the 'decoding' of movement plans using activity of certain neuronal populations. This ability to predict movement intentions from activity of neurons has application in brain-machine interfaces, ...

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 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 ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech Back on Earth, NASA is working to re-create the soft Martian soil in which Spirit is stuck, so that they can test different maneuvers that might extricate the rover. Behind this worker is the rover replica the scientists will use to ...

 UK Now with Pentagon and NASA funding, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has squeezed all the components of a camera onto one low-power chip, revealed in a US patent filed last week (www.tinyurl.com/ojwmdq). The gadget can be radio-controlled via a ...

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 CA that has completed numerous academic and cultural commissions including the new Erburu Gallery at The Huntington, The Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design and the Annenberg Information Science and Technology Center at Caltech. ...

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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Instead, he's packing up his bags and moving — with his fiancée — to Kaust, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, which he described as having a faculty like Caltech's and an endowment like Harvard's. ...

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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.

 India Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech May 18, 2009, (Sawf News) - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter is also aiding in the Spirit recovery plan for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become embedded. A diagnostic test on May 16 provided ...

 CA NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, manages the Spitzer mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, DC Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, ...

 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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 TX Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Image 2: This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, one of our closest galactic neighbors, is about 2.9 million light-years away in the ...

 CA Alice Huang, Caltech virologist and president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, discussed swine flu's close cousin bird flu in a wide-ranging interview in a 2007 article in Caltech News. Although the two strains of the ...

Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Caltech, has been named by President Barack Obama to the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). ...

By daveshields I have recently attempted to bring back the programming skills I last used in 2002. I have done this first as part of my need to find a job. My employer, IBM, laid me off in February, having decided that my B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of...

By daveshields By the way, those Sun employees should stay in California if at all possible. Until the last week of so, when I — with a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute — told people that I had been laid off, they for the most part just clucked and said the ti...

Now in its twelfth year, Caltech's Alumni College features two full days of presentations by Caltech's finest faculty. The 2009 Alumni College will be held Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12.This year's theme is Space Science at Caltech.

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

Steve Koonin, an academic star at Caltech for years who became chief scientist at BP, will join the administration as undersecretary of science. Koonin, one of the best speakers on the green circuit, worked with Steve Chu to get the $500 million dollar ...

By Tom Spitzer and Hubble team up to view the galactic collision that is NGC 6240. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI-ESA This image was created from combined data from the infrared array camera of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope at 3.6 and 8.0 microns (red) and visible light from NASA’s Hubble Spac...

By Anne Minard NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveals, for the first time, dwarf galaxies forming out of nothing more than pristine gas likely leftover from the early universe. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSS Apparently, dwarf galaxies can spring out of thin air.

The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Hsu) The basic lesson deserves emphasis: most people -- even intellectuals, professors and, yes, scientists -- are not careful thinkers. They are not good at overcoming the emotional and psychological barriers that prevent the falsification of cherished beliefs. Science is good training...

By Tom Spitzer Image of the Pinwheel Galaxy. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI I’ve seen the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, numerous times, but never quite like this.  Clicking on the image above may help show its great structure.

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...

Today 12:30 p.m.: - Kerry Sieh, noted Caltech earthquake expert, speaks on the effect of natural hazards on growing world populations. - Vicki Colvin, Rice Univ ...

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. ( Nachrichten ) (BULLETIN BOARD: VSPC), a company dedicated to commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, announced today that its expert system software, "SHINE," licensed from C...

VIASPACE Inc. , a company dedicated to commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, announced today that its expert system software, "SHINE," licensed from Caltech, has been awarded a prestigious NASA Space Act Award.

The Spitzer Space Telescope's new view of the Eagle Nebula with a pullout of the Pillars of Creation region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Flagey/MIPSGAL Science Team. Click to enlarge.

By la_sloane is obsessed with all things STAR today in anxious anticipation of an upcoming visit to the newly reopened Griffiting Observatory and came across this interesting piece of news. The NASA Cassini Spacecraft this past weekend captured images of a massive hurricane on the planet Saturn. Thi...

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...

A new study by GALCIT researchers, published in the September 22 issue of the journal Science, has revealed important findings about the nature of ruptures and sliding behavior, which could impact how we respond to earthquakes and other disasters. For the first time, the experimental v...

The Pasadena Star-News recently featured a story about the High School Teacher Institute, part of the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI). Teachers were the students in this month-long program designed to demonstrate a new way of teaching science to high schoolers, who oft...

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...

Dr. Richard Wiseman, head of the psychology lab at the University of Hertfordshire, will give a Skeptics Society lecture entitled "Luck, ESP, and Magic: How Science Tests the Unusual." This specially scheduled talk will take place at 7 p.m. on November 9, in Baxter Lecture Hall. Donation is $...

Assistant Professor of Planetary Science Oded Aharonson has been selected by NASA to join the Mars Exploration Rover Participating Scientist Program. Aharonson, one of eight investigators chosen from 35 applicants, will use the rovers to look at Martian dirt and rocks to see if liquid...

Faces of Science: Photographs by Mariana Cook will be on exhibit at the Caltech Bookstore from October 19 through November 23. In her book, renowned photographer Mariana Cook turned her camera on some of the greatest men and women of the scientific community to take an intimate look at the...