On Wednesday, December 9 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, David J. Anderson, Caltech's Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; director ...

This bacteria is a true metalhead. Scientists have discovered a new type of bacteria that survives by gobbling metal, according to a new study. Researchers have long believed that a metal-munching ...

On Wednesday, October 7, at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Caltech Professor of Political and Computational Science, R. Michael Alvarez, will launch the 2020-2021 Watson Lectures season by asking, "Can America ...

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Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. Researchers are working on creating autonomous spacecrafts that ...

In 1927 Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote a landmark opinion upholding a Virginia law authorizing forced sterilization of the mentally feeble “for the protection and health of the ...

I asked the eminent theater director Lorne Buchman, out of Toronto and Stanford and Berkeley, and the eminent physicist Tom Rosenbaum, out of Harvard and Princeton and Chicago, to reflect on the wild ...