1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (759+ words) Atoms are far too small to see. On two Tuesday afternoons this summer, a group of Caltech graduate students will hand a room of Pasadena children the invisible building blocks of matter and ask them to put the pieces together…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (458+ words) Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus, Caltech’s John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026. The prolific chemist, who approached theory with infinite curiosity and the background of an experimentalist, was five days shy of his 103rd birthday....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (341+ words) The 2026 investigators are: Jillian Dempsey, professor of chemistry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, to develop new strategies for the light-driven synthesis of chemicals and fuels by leveraging the unique properties of transition metal catalysts. Naomi Ginsberg, professor of chemistry…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (311+ words) John O. Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Joseph Lazio, a visiting associate in astronomy, have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (373+ words) The lithium-ion battery is everywhere — in the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the electric car in your neighbor’s driveway. But the chemistry that makes it work depends on minerals that are expensive, difficult to extract, and…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (444+ words) In a public talk titled “Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future,” See will explain how the lithium-ion battery, which can be found in nearly every home, works on a chemical level and detail the limitations of its current chemistry....