New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

A team of researchers led by California Institute of Technology computer scientist and mathematician Babak Hassibi says it ...

Caltech's 3D-printed nanometals are microscopic, porous, and tougher than ever. See how "Ant-Man" fiction could become a ...

High school girls from around the nation wait in line to ask questions of scientist Katie Bouman during the annual Women in STEM program at Caltech in Pasadena. (Ringo Chiu/For The Times) The ...

Droughts are driving the spread of antibiotic resistant infections around the world, research has shown. Researchers from the ...

Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...

Smoglandia: The cause of SoCal's smog is identified and it isn't the factories spewing black gunk into the sky in support of ...

But when we push metal components down to the nanoscale, the traditional rules of physics start to warp. In 3D printing, this ...

Caltech's wildly ambitious space solar project, buoyed by a massive hundred-million-dollar donation, is preparing to launch its first prototypes into orbit. These cutting-edge ultralight structures ...

The man accused of gunning down a prominent California Institute of Technology astrophysicist had been on the scientist’s isolated desert property just months before the deadly encounter, ...

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...