Caltech in the Media

June 27, 2017 The Huffington Post Scientists Have Worked Out Why Darkness Makes Us Sleepy Coverage of David Prober's new study about a neuropeptide that regulates the relationship between light and sleep.	June 22, 2017 Engadget Caltech's 'Lensless Camera' Could Make Our Phones Truly Flat Researchers at Caltech have devised an "optical phased array" chip that uses math as a substitute for a lens. By adding a time delay—down to a quadrillionth of a second—to the light received at different locations on the chip, it can change focus without a lens.	June 22, 2017 CNET Could Caltech's 'Lensless Camera' Mean Flatter Phones? Today's phones are so thin that the camera lens often can't help but bulge out a little bit. Researchers at Caltech might have the solution, though. It's a single-layer "lensless camera" capable of mimicking a traditional lens and sensor design.
June 22, 2017 The Daily Mail 'Lensless Camera' Could FINALLY Give Us Flat Smartphones Without a Jutting Camera Nub The only thing stopping smartphones from being truly flat is their camera lenses, which need a certain size and shape of bulky glass to function. Caltech researchers have now developed a 1x1 mm (0.03x0.03 inches) 'lensless camera' computer chip that uses algorithms to capture images.	June 21, 2017 The New York Times Jerry Nelson, Designer of the Segmented Telescope, Dies at 73 Obituary for Caltech alumnus Jerry Nelson, principal designer for the W.M. Keck Observatory.	June 20, 2017 PC Magazine How This 'Founder Astronaut' Is Prepping for Space Travel Caltech alum Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides talks about her upcoming trip aboard one of Virgin Galactic's first suborbital flights. Whitesides is a co-founder of Yuri's Night space parties, and a lecturer at the International Space University.
June 19, 2017 The Register (UK) NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finishes Its Original Mission Catalog Article about the Kepler mission's last catalog of exoplanets--and a related Caltech-led study about sorting exoplanets into new distinct classes. Quotes Andrew Howard and BJ Fulton.	June 19, 2017 Axios Axios Future Shapers: The Brain, the Next Frontier Doris Tsao was among the participants at a live event on June 14 hosted by Axios, on the impact and possibilities of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biopharmaceuticals and research for the brain. In a one-on-one conversation with Axios editor Alison Snyder, Tsao noted that "We don't understand how the brain is functioning. What we really need is new theories about how large groups of neurons can work together to enable memory, perception, decision-making, and thought."	June 19, 2017 The New York Times Earth-Size Planets Among Final Tally of NASA's Kepler Telescope NASA's Kepler mission announces its final catalogue of exoplanets, and Caltech researchers present new results about classifying exoplanets into distinct size groups. Article quotes four Caltechers: Andrew Howard, BJ Fulton, Erik Petigura and Courtney Dressing.
June 15, 2017 The Atlantic The Millennial Astronaut Who Wants to Go to Mars Caltech postdoc Jessica Watkins, one of NASA's newest recruits, says she's ready—but only if there's a ride back.	June 14, 2017 The Washington Post US Physicists Win Spanish Prize for Work in Gravity Waves Caltech's Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, along with Rainer Weiss of MIT and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, have been awarded Spain's Princess of Asturias 2017 Award for Technical and Scientific Research.	June 13, 2017 Space.com 5 Images for 5 Years: NASA's Black Hole Hunter Mission Celebrates Anniversary Fiona Harrison, the principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission from Caltech, talks about her top five images of the mission so far.
June 13, 2017 MIT Technology Review California to Trump: We'll Fund Clean Energy If You Won't Amid federal cuts, some state scientists and senators think California should create an energy research effort similar to its breakaway stem-cell initiative. Quotes Caltech Chemistry Professor Nathan Lewis.	June 12, 2017 Essence Girl Boss: 5 Things to Know About NASA's Newest Black Astronaut Candidate Essence profiled Caltech postdoc Jessica Watkins, who has been selected as an astronaut.	June 09, 2017 Astronomy Magazine When Art and Astronomy Mix Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle of Caltech teamed up to produce visualizations of exoplanets that are both eye-catching and scientifically plausible. "It can be hard to visualize something you can't see, so when NASA announced the TRAPPIST-1 system, they knew they needed to get some great artists to visually represent the amazing new system."