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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 ...

PASADENA – Two lectures, free and open to the public, will be offered on Thursday and Friday in a partnership of Caltech and Fuller Theological Seminary. Through the twin lenses of neuroscience and ...