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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Things Are Stacking up for NASA's Mars 2020 Spacecraft
At JPL, components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft are being test-fitted together in a process known as "stacking."
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Undergraduate Student
Yeorgia Kafkoulis
Even our most reliable ideas about how the universe works break down in certain domains. They can’t account for the weirdness of quantum mechanics or the recursive chaos of fractals. Hungry for answers, many researchers—including one Caltech undergraduate and her faculty mentor—aim to come up with a better explanation.
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Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center
Tom Soifer
After nearly five decades at Caltech, Tom Soifer is still smiling. The former Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy continues to advance our understanding of the universe by hunting for dust-obscured galaxies—DOGs—where others can’t see.
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Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Manuel Razo Mejia
Caltech graduate student Manuel Razo Mejia wants to predict how evolution occurs in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. Until recently, evolution has been considered a random process, but Razo Mejia believes we might detect certain patterns by applying the principles of physics and mathematics.
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Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry
Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Caltech surprised chemist and neurobiologist Linda Hsieh-Wilson when she arrived as a new professor in 2000. The unusually interactive campus felt like a community, even a family.
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Undergraduate Student
Damien Bérubé
Like many who come to Caltech to learn and explore, undergraduate Damien Bérubé dreams of changing the world with science and engineering. But his personal vision—the force that drives him in the classroom, the lab, and beyond—is an uncommon one.
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Shaking it up on #Mars. What is likely a marsquake has been detected by @NASAInSight. Listen to it here (headphone… https://t.co/zvprwmv33v
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![“You know, tonight you might see the Virgo constellation, and if you zoom in toward the head of Virgo there's actually this giant elliptical galaxy called M87, and it's 55 million light-years away. And if we could zoom in very far toward the center of M87 with the radio telescope, we would see these flailing arms of a jet, and what this jet tells us is at the heart of it there's a supermassive black hole, a place where what's too close can’t escape, not even light.
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And although we haven't ever been able to see this black hole before, we see the effects of it in the jet. And what we are trying to do with the Event Horizon Telescope is see something as small as that little dot, … the core of the black hole, the immediate [area] around that black hole.”
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Katie Bouman, who was part of the team that created the first-ever image of a black hole, hosted a conversation Friday at Caltech about the algorithms she and others developed to create the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration image that’s been all over the news this week. Bouman will join Caltech as an assistant professor on June 1.](https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/13fb80867f4da8d563b795d9f62db823/5D5DC206/t51.2885-15/fr/e15/s1080x1080/53833748_2311751642221645_7585913144500376699_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com)
