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As the information age evolves, we are faced with challenges in how to capture and process information. To address daunting modern-day questions in computing and sensing, Caltech scientists are using ...

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Last week the California Institute of Technology announced that the full text of Richard Feynman’s Lectures On Physics are now available online for free, at feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. You’ve perhaps ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the 1964 textbook encapsulation of Richard Feynman's legendary lectures to Caltech undergrads in the early '60s, is online for the reading, Kottke notes—for free, and ...

Richard Feynman famously said that “if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” But Garnet Chan, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of ...