California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

The past as prologue

We've been here before, all too often(5)

The past as prologue

We've been here before, all too often(0)

The Economist Debate Series: Global energy crisis: Sponsor Q&A

Seeing stars

Cosmology: I spy with my little gravitational lens

How to map the invisible(0)

BRAIN SCAN: Medicine without frontiers

Leroy Hood, one of medicine's boldest visionaries, has spent his career marrying biology with technology(0)

MONITOR: Inside the mind of the consumer

Neuromarketing: Could brain-scanning technology provide an accurate way to assess the appeal of new products and the effectiveness of advertising?(0)

The business of homeland security: Secure profits

California's latest high-tech boom(0)

Gamma-ray bursts: Bursting with controversy

Arguments continue about the biggest explosions in the universe(0)

Going with the flow

At Caltech, “profit is a concept, cash flow is reality”(0)

MONITOR: The smoother, the faster

By tweaking the internet's software foundations, data-transmission speeds for demanding users have been boosted threefold(0)

Protein folding: Moving pictures

It is now possible to watch a protein molecule folding up(0)

Art of the M&A deal

Bypassing the basics, a Caltech merger course cuts to the integration chase(0)

Last word: An incurable itch

Carver Mead claims to have never had an original idea. Others call him a prophet, a genius and one of the founding fathers of information technology(0)

Cosmology: Let there be light

Astronomers may have glimpsed the edge of the visible—the fog that filled the universe before the first stars shone(0)

Through a metal, darkly

Some forms of metal have bizarre glass-like properties, which could prove surprisingly useful(0)

Artificial noses: Nowt to sniff at

Wine-tasting will never be the same again(0)

Comets: A long, hot shower

A powerful beat

The ability of the zillions of nerve cells in a brain to combine their efforts has puzzled researchers for decades. Now for a brain wave(0)