A quick search of humanoid robot videos will deliver demonstrations of two-legged robots playing soccer, dancing, jumping several feet in the air, even competing in kickboxing matches. It is all ...

Isaac Newton is typically portrayed as a solitary scientist with intense focus who was obsessed with power and deeply egotistical. But a new book by Caltech historians Jed Buchwald and Mordechai ...

On Friday, September 25, Caltech formally welcomed its newest class of scholars, including 255 undergraduate students, 173 graduate students, and 40 postdoctoral scholars, at a Convocation ceremony in ...

Infertility affects about one in six people of reproductive age, yet its causes often remain unexplained. In some cases, infertility may originate before a person is even born, very early in their own ...

Intense, brief flashes of radio light called fast radio bursts (FRBs) travel across billions of light-years to reach Earth, passing through a fog of matter along the way. The bursts' origins are ...

In 1700, life was miserable everywhere. Nearly everyone was poor, most had to toil long days in fields just to feed their families, and half of all children died before adulthood. But throughout the ...