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Apple was having a pretty good week. The company just reported a record quarter, raking in billions thanks to the…

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld…

August 17, 2017 heralded one of the most important observations in astronomy’s history: two neutron stars colliding,…

In an investigation published today, Science reveals that a Caltech professor received a one-year suspension for…

Although we’re not 99.9% sure when an earthquake will strike in Los Angeles, an earthquake early warning system…

Everyone’s fretting about a terrifying article on the terrifying Cascadia Subduction Zone, which will almost…

Caltech engineers built an ingenious Petri dish from Lego blocks that uses a cell phone image sensor and a…

Wind turbines are big on power and marvels to look at. They're also rather inefficient. So some scientists thought…

After successfully putting a scale model TARDIS (with lights!) on top of a building at MIT, the CalTech pranksters…

The North American Nebula is a flattering portrait of the NAFTA countries, floating in space. But when the Spitzer…

Look close. You may be staring at the end of cancer. Those tiny black dots are nanobots delivering a lethal blow to…

This week, scientists at Caltech released the first ever multi-input, "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA devices. You…

Earlier this week we reported on the magnetic anomaly map of the world, and now there is evidence of a more pressing…

There's been a bit of a rush of pocket/USB digital microscopes recently, but none can hold a candle to this…

A team at Caltech is working on a MEMS-based robot probe that will be able to slowly creep electrodes into your…