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After the January 2025 LA fires burned thousands of homes in Altadena, Pasadena, and the Pacific Palisades, the Caltech Science Exchange asked Lucy Jones to share her insights on how communities recover from natural disasters.
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Last year, faculty members helped to lead a President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) study on how to improving wildland firefighting.
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"My dad worked at Burger Continental on Lake Avenue for 25 years, where he did the cleaning and dishwashing. He interacted with a lot of the Caltech community since it was only a couple blocks away."
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"Watching the Super Bowl on Mars (after having it beamed to us over a couple nights) was a great experience."
Alum Ross Brockwell has finished his yearlong mission on simulated Mars. What he's learned about isolation and space travel:
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Shane Shahrestani (PhD '21) has been named to the 2025 Forbes "30 Under 30 in Science" list.
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As a grad student, he developed a portable device that first responders could carry and use to discover blood-flow blockages in the brain.
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“About three months ago, I was having lunch at Browne Dining Hall and suddenly a staff member started yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘He's the man! He's the man!’"
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Why the Coherent 599 tunable dye #laser — which was manufactured in 1977 — remains a surprisingly useful tool, even when better modern lasers abound
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"It beats up to 2 billion times over our lifetime. We can’t find any mechanical machine that lasts that long."
What it means to study the $heart as a machine:
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So long to NASA's rugged DC-8, which flew a generation of @Caltech atmospheric scientists on missions around the world. @PaulOWennberg @katlball
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Our Fall 2024 is out now! Read the cover story: How isotopes could be used to answer intriguing questions about Earth, the wider universe, and the human body.
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“Caltech students both live and work here in Pasadena. We are a vulnerable population. We don’t make much money and many of us are immigrants, so I think it’s important for us to speak up and for our city to consider our safety.”
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“I really love space... I remember getting my first telescope when I was in third grade. I was so excited, and my mom thought it was just a phase; like all kids have their dinosaur phase or astronaut phase. But I really stuck with it."
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"You know the name Caltech, but where it was in the United States, I had no idea. Pasadena? Where is Pasadena? And then I arrived in Los Angeles. I'm like, ‘Oh my God, I'm in LA!’ It’s been really fun." #SoCaltech
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“It was a culture shock being around other kids who loved STEM as much as I did. [Back home], I would talk about these big dreams and people would be like, ‘Uh, OK.’ But here, if I say I want to work at NASA, people are like, ‘Oh, yeah! That’s possible!’
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“The ability to feed yourself and your family depends deeply on the productivity of the soil and the animals that live off of it, and it gives you a deep respect and attachment to the earth.”
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This image of the Dumbbell Nebula (which resides more than 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula) was taken by the Hale Telescope in 1961. It is one of the earliest color images of the cosmos. #Palomar
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"Einstein embarked on a luxurious steamship in December 1930. He worked during most of his trip. It is said that stewards carried away basketfuls of scratch paper that he was throwing away.”
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"Forty years ago, there were a lot of physicists and chemists who could benefit from using a computer, but they didn’t know how.
#AI is at the stage that the computer was 40 years ago. We must bring scientists on board to be able to use AI effectively."
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Caltech researchers are making preventive medicine more accessible through the development of #wearable sensors that can provide continuous real-time monitoring of #biomarkers related to diabetes, stress, inflammation, heart disease, and more.
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