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Upcoming Events

August 4, 2026 2:00 pm

Former Senator/Astronaut Harrison Schmitt to Speak

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

August 4, 2026 4:30 pm

Science Tuesdays: Victoria Orphan

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar

Victoria Orphan, Caltech,

Science Tuesdays

August 11, 2026 4:30 pm

Science Tuesdays: Britt Abrahamson

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar

Britt Abrahamson,

Science Tuesdays

August 12, 2026 8:00 pm

Outdoor Movie Night: She's the Man

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre

August 18, 2026 4:30 pm

Science Tuesdays: Pilar Vergeli

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar

Pilar Vergeli,

Science Tuesdays

August 19, 2026 12:00 pm

From Earth to the Cosmos: A Musical Voyage Through Space and Sound

Ramo Auditorium

Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS)

August 25, 2026 12:00 pm

JPL and the Search for Life Beyond Earth

August 27, 2026 7:30 pm

Moveable Feast: Gronk in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Beckman Auditorium

October 9, 2026 7:00 pm

AIM Public Lecture Series: Terence Tao

Beckman Auditorium

Terence Tao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

AIM Public Lecture Series

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Fourteen years ago, NASA’s Curiosity Rover touched down safely on Mars. Congratulations to NASA and the Caltech-JPL community for fourteen years and counting of science and discovery on the Red Planet!

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Tidal disruption event (TDE) is the convoluted term astronomers use to describe what they see when a black hole swallows a stars that ventures too close to it. These events can be extraordinarily bright - momentarily brighter than the entire galaxy that hosts the black hole. They are also observed almost exclusively at the center of galaxies, but not always. Astronomers from the Zwicky Transient Facility partnership detected a tidal disruption event with the ZTF robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory. This TDE was very unusual because it was discovered far away from the center of its galaxy. ZTF has discovered more than 80 TDEs since it started operations back in 2018, but this is the first such event. Discovering more TDEs will help astronomers better understand the evolution and lifetime of black holes within galaxies.

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In January 2025, unprecedented fires burned through communities across Los Angeles County. In the months that followed, Caltech scientists and engineers developed new technologies to expand first responder capabilities through intelligent systems, coordination, and decision support.

This working system was named mITRAR. The name alludes to the fusion of digital information with the real world: Mithra after an ancient Persian deity associated with protection, and AR for the system’s augmented reality aspect. The mITRAR system collects data from all available sensors and uses AI to offer up several viable responses. Each individual agency using the system would be able to specify its own protocols and teach the system its preferences ahead of time by showing it how they would respond to simulated incidents.

AI can help create a new kind of electrochemical refinery. It can help reveal how microorganisms thrive in real-world settings. It can shed light on the vast collection of chemicals in the world with no known structure—what some scientists refer to as chemical dark matter. Funding for these multi-institution projects, led by Caltech professors Theo Agapie, Victoria Orphan, and Hosea Nelson, were announced today by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation as part of the Genesis Mission, a nationwide initiative to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery.