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“Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is ruined. A new ultrafast camera developed at Caltech, were it …
“One of the ways we experience the world around us is through our skin. From sensing temperature and pressure to pleasure or pain, the many nerve endings in our skin tell us a great deal. Our skin can also tell …
“If someone asked you right now how stressed you are, what would you say? A little? A lot? You do not know? Those are all valid responses, but they are not especially useful to researchers and medical professionals because they …
“The perplexing phenomenon of quantum entanglement is central to quantum computing, quantum networking, and the fabric of space and time. The famous “Jim twins,” separated soon after birth in the 1940s, seemed to live parallel lives even though they grew …
“Physicists find evidence for the mechanism by which metals may exhibit ‘ferroelectricity’ One of the most fundamental rules physics students learn in college is that metals cannot possess an internal electric field. This makes metals, in a sense, opposite to …
“A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion. While most reconfigurable materials can toggle between two distinct states, the way a switch toggles on or off, the new material’s shape …
“Rust is a common problem on infrastructure, but new research shows that when it’s combined with salt water, it can also be a source of electricity. There are many ways to generate electricity—batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, and …
“With user facilities, researchers devise novel battery chemistries to help make fluoride batteries a reality. The Science Energy-dense fluoride batteries are exciting, but they only work at high temperatures. A collaboration of researchers recently discovered a new liquid electrolyte. It …
“Move over Mona Lisa, here comes tic-tac-toe. It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering, announced they had used a technique known as DNA origami to create tiles …
“Caltech’s High Energy Physics and network teams collaborate with partners to develop computer networks for “big data” science projects. During a research exhibition at the Supercomputing 2018 Conference (SC18) in Dallas in November, Caltech’s High Energy Physics and …