Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones.

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, ...

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 ...

Caltech and Princeton emeritus professor John Hopfield received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, Oct. 8, for his work — much of it developed early on at the Pasadena campus – in the ...

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 ...

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 ...