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...
Credit: Caltech As you read this text, the millions of cells that make up your body are hard at work. Within every cell is a flurry of activity keeping you alive, mostly driven by machinery that is made up of proteins. Some of this protein machinery is so important to living...
2.When not surveying the stars, peering through microscopes, or running through marathons of coding, Caltech students pursue an eclectic array of interests that range from speed-cubing to participating in varsity athletics to reading romance novels. What is a favorite interest or hobby, and why d...
The very first of the thousand steps, if you want to find something new, is to learn to live with uncertainty, and to learn to accept failure as the norm, because looking for the unknown is like being a trapeze artist who never works with a safety net. There's no guarantee when, or...
When you're pushing into the unknown, there's no guarantee of success, and so-called failure is your constant companion. 翻译: 我的博士导师范塔梅伦(E.E. van Tamelen)是他这一代中最具创造力的化学家之一,他所想的...
That galactic bad boy at the center is shooting out jets of radio waves. NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers now believe black holes lie at the centers of most galaxies. They classify these beasts as supermassive black holes because each one may have a maximum mass equivalent to billions of suns...
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 during their time here at Caltech....
NASA/JPL-Caltech The next geologic period of Mars' history is known as the Hesperian. The beginning of the Hesperian period is marked by a rise in volcanism and a decrease in celestial impact events. The flood of volcanic activity caused around 30% of the planet to be paved over, and ...
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 ...
When a guest author is invited to write about a topic, they’re chosen because they have had experience in those areas. Characteristic #3: Authority Do you want to learn astrophysics from a Caltech physicist, or your next-door neighbor? Of course, it’s the Caltech physicist. (Unless, ...