Pasadena’s Caltech is getting its next leader starting this summer. The venerated research institution announced last week that Ray Jayawardhana will become president effective July 1. He will replace ...

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Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Google is testing a new lectures Audio Overview style in NotebookLM that can turn notes into a single-host, 30-minute explanation. The Lecture format would sit alongside existing modes, such as Deep ...

Alfred University alumnus Sandwip Dey, M.S. ’80, PhD ’84, professor of materials science and engineering at Arizona State University, will deliver the John F. McMahon Memorial Lecture at 11:20 a.m.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of ...

Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition ...