Caltech and MIT have carried on a keen competition for years as top technological institutes, and a key element of the rivalry has been the trading of pranks, or “hacks,” as they’re sometimes called.

Two Caltech scientists and their counterpart at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning for leading a worldwide effort to detect gravitational waves ...

Five exceptional students from across the Coachella Valley have won full-ride scholarships to attend prestigious universities across the United States from Caltech in Pasadena to MIT in Boston. They ...

During Florida’s ballot crisis in 2000, two prominent research universities offered to help repair the nation’s voting process so that Americans would not have to go through another fiasco requiring ...

So, nanotechnology. Amazing stuff really. So amazing in fact, that some researchers and engineers at Caltech, MIT, and ETH Zurich have discovered how to make lighter than Kevlar materials that can ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Oraxion Diagnostics, a vendor of process control metrology systems based on technologies developed at Caltech and MIT, has received $8 million in venture capital funding, the ...

Five planets orbiting a star have been discovered outside our solar system, thanks to a crowdsourcing effort that enlisted the help of about 10,000 citizen scientists worldwide to comb through data ...

PASADENA, Calif.—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) graduate student Guoan Zheng is the recipient of the 2011 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Caltech Student Prize. Zheng was among the four $30,000 ...

Two Caltech scientists and their counterpart at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning for leading a worldwide effort to detect gravitational waves ...