Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Other Eugenics Proponents

The value of science (1955)

Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree

Hundreds of Copies of Newton's Principia Found in New Census

As Pandemic Progressed, People's Perceived Risks Went Up

LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation

Caltech biologists have discovered bacteria that use manganese as their energy source, using it to convert CO₂ into biomass

The Problem of Scale and the Case for Cybernetic Communism

Caltech: New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second

GW190412: The Merger of Two Black Holes with Unequal Masses

Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights

Hidden donors (those who donate less than $200) play a significant role in political campaigns, new study shows

Cargo Cult Science

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I Chapter 22: Algebra

The Principle of Least Action

Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around Its Star

How Memories Form and Fade - The research has implications for understanding how memory might be affected after brain damage, such as by strokes or Alzheimer's disease

Computing in the Soviet Space Program (2005)

Richard Feynman on Cargo Cult Science (1974)

Ultra-thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Water - thin films of rust—iron oxide—can generate electricity when saltwater flows over them.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free

Scientists show direct link between gut microbiome and autism-like behaviors in mice

Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars

Research shows for the first time how the brains of anxious individuals react to both fast (fear-based) and slow (anxiety-based) attacking threats

Computer Scientists Create Reprogrammable Molecular Computing System

Theoretical way to levitate objects with light

Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century

Spinning the Light: The World's Smallest Optical Gyroscope - Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice

Choice overload happens when the brain, faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, struggles to make a decision

Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other - in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions - a phenomenon called postdiction in which a stimulus that occurs later can retroactively affect our perceptions of an earlier event.

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