The new procedure shortens wait times from three days and could help reduce the spread of superbug bacteria. The discovery of antibiotics in the early part of the 20th century changed modern... Read more
A DNA nanorobot is programmed to pick up and sort molecules into predefined regions. Imagine a robot that could help you tidy your home: roving about, sorting stray socks into the laundry an... Read more
Caltech researchers have developed microscale devices that relay their location in the body Researchers at Caltech have developed a prototype miniature medical device that could ultimately b... Read more
Overriding the Urge to Sleep The work was done in the laboratory of Viviana Gradinaru (BS ’05), assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, Heritage Medical Research Ins... Read more
Engineering team achieves imaging upgrade of high-resolution full-body scans of small animals, in real time Medical engineers at the Optical Imaging Laboratory led by Caltech’s Lihong... Read more
New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have—in just two years—nearly doubled the number of... Read more
Electronic circuits are found in almost everything from smartphones to spacecraft and are useful in a variety of computational problems from simple addition to determining the trajectories o... Read more
Seeing deep into space requires large telescopes. The larger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the sharper the image it provides. For example, NASA’s Kepler space observat... Read more
Low-cost coating would disrupt the building retrofit market and potentially save billions in electricity It’s estimated that 10 percent of all the energy used in buildings in the U.S. can be... Read more
Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to... Read more
Imagine a balloon that could float without using any lighter-than-air gas. Instead, it could simply have all of its air sucked out while maintaining its filled shape. Such a vacuum balloon,... Read more