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An immune cell treatment that fights cancer is now taking aim at autoimmune disease
Piecing together the body’s cellular puzzle
Oil palm plantations replace diverse tropical forests with monocultures, but restoration can bring biodiversity and ecosystem services back to these highly modified landscapes.
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Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.
Satellite observations validate national reports on forest coverage and carbon storage.
Elderly big brown bats showed little sign of age-related degradation in the inner ear.
Caltech Magazine (November 8, 2024): The FAll 2024 issue features ‘Chemical Codebreakers’ – Isotopes help scientists open window to the past….
Journeys to the Past: Isotope geochemistry is helping scientists reveal secrets about the molecular histories of Earth, the cosmos, the human body, and more.
An Intriguing Red Planet Rock: The Mars Perseverance rover has found a “compelling” rock that could indicate the planet hosted microbial life billions of years ago.
The 2024 Distinguished Alumni: Meet this year’s awardees: David Brin (BS ’73), Louise Chow (PhD ’73), Bill Coughran (BS, MS ’75), and Timothy M. Swager (PhD ’88).
The Evolution of Trolling: A new theoretical framework explains why social media discourse can be so toxic.
Inside Look: Joe Parker: Step into the office of this evolutionary biologist, whose research nest is filled with real—and illustrated— insects.
Ripples from the Heart: Mory Gharib (PhD ’83) has leveraged his aerospace expertise to tease out some of the heart’s greatest secrets and use them to develop life-saving medical devices.
The Lab in the Sky Says Goodbye: A NASA DC-8 airplane that carried Caltech students around the globe for science has been retired.
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High-level resistance to methicillin requires a distinct form of cell division
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Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.
Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.
Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.
Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.
Astronomy magazine (November 1, 2024) – The latest issue features “Everything we kno about the Sun’….
The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.
For thousands of years, humans have worshipped the Sun. Our ancestors built monuments and temples to it, and used it to mark the annual cycle of seasons. For ancient Egyptians, their most important god, Re, was the personification of the Sun itself.
Today, we are no less in thrall to the wonders and mysteries of our nearest star. We’ve made strides in understanding its major systems and answered many questions about how it produces energy. But the Sun is far from an open book,
Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere observers this month.
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Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.
A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.
The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.
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Young asteroid families seed more than 70% of extraterrestrial rocks found on the planet
New insights on cells behind long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines
Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients
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Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.
A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.
Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.
The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue
Slime molds thrive in a range of environments, displaying an unexpected beauty in a variety of forms and life cycle stages.
Drugs targeting the kidneys for diabetes treatment stem from almost two centuries of research that began with an uprooted apple orchard.
Infants are born with the ability to babble and cry in the accents of their mothers through a combination of neurological, physical, and environmental responses.
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