Walking on Caltech's campus, research engineer Chris Roh (MS '13, PhD '17) happened to see a bee stuck in the water of Millikan Pond.
Bees "Surf" Atop Water
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Technique Identifies T Cells Primed for Certain Allergies or Infections
When your immune system is exposed to a vaccine, an allergen, or an infectious microbe, subsets of T cells that can recognize a foreign intruder leap into action.
A 2-Million-Year-Old Ice Core from Antarctica Reveals Ancient Climate Clues
Analyzing the oldest ice core ever retrieved in Antarctica, U.S. scientists have shown a correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature as far back as 2 million years.
Climate May Have Helped Crumble One of the Ancient World’s Most Powerful Civilizations
New research suggests it was climate-related drought that built the foundation for the collapse of the Assyrian Empire (whose heartland was based in today’s northern Iraq)—one of the most powerful civilizations in the ancient world.
Biologists Build Proteins That Avoid Crosstalk with Existing Molecules
Inside a living cell, many important messages are communicated via interactions between proteins.
World Scientists Declare Climate Emergency, Establish Global Indicators for Effective Action
A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change.
