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In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...

Researchers at Caltech have revealed two illusions illustrating how our brain can be tricked into seeing something that isn't really there. The phenomenon is known as postdiction, and highlights how ...

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The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa for its aerospace department, it was announced Thursday. The ...

Engineers manage to intertwine several qubits at once, taking the biggest leap yet toward a functional quantum internet.

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What Happened: Alright, so Caltech and a research team in Abu Dhabi (Technology Innovation Institute) just showed off a new robot system they’ve been cooking up for three years, and it’s nuts. Why ...

A team of researchers at Caltech have created a fluid-like chain mail that can go rigid on command. The scifi material could give exoskeletons an unprecedented flexibility, while also being able to ...

In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots. Not little metal humanoid or even bio-mimicking robots; think instead ...

Apple and its Wi-Fi chip supplier Broadcom have reached an agreement with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), putting an end to a years-long legal battle over wireless communication ...