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.

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.—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 ...

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 ...