In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

PASADENA — In a major shift for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday, Aug. 31, it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- California Institute of Technology professors Barry Barish and Kip Thorne received one of the highest honors in science, a Nobel Prize. Along with their colleague Rainer ...

Researcher David Politzer, a professor from Caltech, just won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics. Politzer and two other American scientists studied a phenomenon called the “strong force,” an energy that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

Kids often dream of being astronauts, rocketing into space and returning as heroes. Most kids outgrow this fantasy by the time they start junior high school. Not so for a team of physics students at ...

Edward C. Stone, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Stone succeeds current director Lew Allen, Jr ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). One half of the prize ...