Once you measure a Cepheid’s period, you can calculate its distance from how bright it appears using theinverse square law. The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and looking for the telltale variations of...
Founded in 1891, Pasadena, California’s California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a premier university specializing in science and engineering. Caltech has produced numerous leaders in their fields, including Nobel laureates. Caltech is enormously selective, and students flock from all over the...
NASA/JPL-Caltech Although aerogel is expensive, researchers are still experimenting with ways to make it stronger, cheaper and less hazardous. For example, Professor Nicholas Leventis from the Missouri University of Science and Technology amazed the science world in 2002 with the announcement that he...
She secured a SURF twice, and even worked hard in the lab during the school year, and now we have a beautiful scientific story that came out of the project,” he says. “The Caltech SURF program is an amazing opportunity, and I encourage all undergraduates to take advantage of it ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have Mars rovers? Mars, after all, is the planet that most closely resembles Earth— that is, if Earth had an average temperature of minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 ...
10) is another example of a great career of a physicist-turned-biologist [27]. In a joint interview with Magdolna Hargittai, he told us (pp 521 − 522), “I had always been interested in biology largely due to Max Delbrück. I was a graduate student at Caltech when he and ...
Luckily, we've found a behemoth pair of jet beams that may give us more clues. In 2024, scientists at Caltech observed the longest light beams yet discovered in the universe with an outflow of energy so powerful it would take trillions of our sun to match them. They've named the beams...
While critical feedback is important to making progress in academia,howpeople convey their input is important. To illustrate what does not work well for feedback, I mention two situations I witnessed. In 1997, I was a short-time visiting professor at Caltech as Ahmed H. Zewail’s (1946 ...
3.Did you have a hard time narrowing it down to just one interest or hobby? We understand – Caltech students like to stay busy, too – tell us about another hobby or interest! (Max: 50 words) 可选简答题 1.如果你觉得你的生活或社会或个人身份的某些方面在本申请的其他地方没有被捕捉到,...
Webb is tasked with answering a lot of life's greatest mysteries, like how did life develop on Earth; how do galaxies, like this one known as Messier 81, form; and was there ever life on Mars?NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ...