Caltech

The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

[Caltech @Caltech]

Additionally, Caltech is making huge advances in two avenues of research that could produce a working quantum computer in the coming years: Machines that use neutral atoms as qubits, the quantum version of a classical bit, and those that use superconducting qubits.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Building quantum computers at large scale remains a formidable challenge. Our new image gallery provides a glimpse into the ambitious efforts required to build reliable machines. https://t.co/DTZy6NAzDH

[HPCwire @HPCwire]

Caltech Experiments Confirm Predicted Universal Patterns in Quantum Phase Transitions
@Caltech #QuantumComputing #HPC
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More than two decades before NASA was created, Caltech students and researchers worked side-by-side on daring rocketry experiments in the Arroyo Seco.

Today, Caltech students continue that legacy at JPL.

https://t.co/OjWpvTn0YO

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Ralph Adolphs from @Caltech is one of the top researchers on the neuroscience of human emotions. You’ll learn why facial expressions are not that informative about people’s state, the relationship btwn memory & emotion, why Ralph does cold plunges daily, runs ultras & more.

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Meet Ashwin Vasavada (PhD '98), a Caltech graduate and project scientist for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.

We’re introducing extraordinary people at Caltech and JPL who make possible some of
NASA's most ambitious and technically demanding missions.

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Caltech's Anima Anandkumar says there is a crucial ingredient missing from most AI models: the ability to understand the physical world.

https://t.co/T9Nl2KFjPS

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Every centimeter of sea-level rise could displace 1.5 million people, and current estimates of rise range from half a meter to 2 meters by the end of the 21st century—which means that potentially hundreds of millions of people could be affected.

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Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light microscope, the same lab has figured out a way to double down on that improvement.

https://t.co/b5mJlxqnez

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

At California Institute of Technology, a little-known band of admissions officials is scrutinizing the fonts on science-fair certificates, checking addresses on high-school transcripts and analyzing signatures on awards. 🔗: https://t.co/AP2CVaqutV

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Happy 14 Years on Mars, Curiosity!

[Penn Engineering @PennEngineers]

Interstellar travel may be one step closer.

Researchers from @MEAM_Penn, @Penn_ESE, @Caltech and @UCLAengineering developed an ultra-thin light sail that could propel spacecraft using lasers. The breakthrough brings laser-driven space travel one step closer to reality.

“Years ago, we were asking what these sails should look like,” says Igor Bargatin, Associate Professor in MEAM. “Now we’re actually building them.”

https://t.co/YdVk6e2jes

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New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a meteorite has found that, the same way that snowflakes crystallize around grains of dust, ancient stardust grains leftover from long-gone suns may have been the seeds of our solar system's earliest solids.

https://t.co/T2FgRHUdCv

[ZTF Survey @ztfsurvey]

Since 2018, @ztfsurvey has observed more than 80 black holes via cosmic events known as TDEs. Mostly spotted at the center of galaxies, #UMD astronomers & ZTF partners have now discovered a supermassive black hole far away on the outskirts. https://t.co/DfFmkX1IHG @UMDscience

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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of Caltech researchers has observed Neptune's rings and three of those moons—Larissa, Galatea, and Proteus—and found that their composition is unique among outer solar system bodies.

https://t.co/HBmJGLawHq

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Researchers at Caltech and Google have uncovered important new insights about how clouds might respond to warming sea-surface temperatures and rising CO2 levels using a large and powerful dataset of simulations developed by the group.

https://t.co/Gih2YtBQcc

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Caltech chemistry professor Hosea Nelson (PhD '13) has his eyes on a big goal: He wants to know the three-dimensional (3D) structure of all the molecules found in the natural world.

https://t.co/x4sDp5GYLz

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Two new multi-institution collaborations led by Caltech scientists have been selected to receive first-round funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery.

https://t.co/zw9B7dWzOc

[Caltech Seismo Lab @CaltechSeismo]

What is life like aboard a research ship? For Allen Husker and his students, most days were spent working on theses and papers, but there was still time for fun! They watched movies, turned the mess hall into their own impromptu coffee shop, played games, and tested their table tennis skills against the movement of the ocean! Beautiful sunrises and sunsets together rounded out life at sea.

Read more about the expedition: https://t.co/2HKY7w81Qo

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

What was once only visible from a distance, we could now reach out and grasp…

Throughout history, humanity dreamed of Mars – but it was never within reach. That changed 50 years ago when NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of the Red Planet on July 20, 1976.

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Nobel laureate Rudy Marcus, Caltech's John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026. The prolific chemist was five days shy of his 103rd birthday. https://t.co/7XpRkCWPbt