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 ...

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.

At the California Institute of Technology, "we work so hard in school that our fun is precious to us," student Britton Boras told a Los Angeles Times reporter this week as the two sat on a plane to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

More than a dozen top U.S. colleges including Caltech, Yale, Columbia and MIT were sued for allegedly conspiring to manipulate the admissions system to hold down financial aid for students and benefit ...

LIGO researchers at MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational ...