Professor Aaron Ames of the California Institute of Technology joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning question about robotics. What are robot dogs actually used for? Is there any attempt to put ChatGPT inside a robot?

A May 2025 profile photo of Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance appears to match the appearance of the man in a photo of the alleged attacker being taken into custody that was posted Saturday night by President Donald Trump.

Matthew Coley-O’Rourke, assistant professor of chemistry, worked under Chan as an undergraduate researcher at Princeton and later as a Ph.D. candidate at Caltech. He described Chan as a mentor who combined “rigorous scientific demands with understanding interpersonal challenges.”

From left, physicists A.A. Michelson and Albert Einstein and former Caltech President Robert A. Millikan meet on the Caltech campus in 1931. (Smithsonian Archives) At first blush, the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well ...

High school girls from around the nation wait in line to ask questions of scientist Katie Bouman during the annual Women in STEM program at Caltech in Pasadena. (Ringo Chiu/For The Times) The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from ...

Some students who signed up for an online cloud computing boot camp at prestigious Caltech university, of “Big Bang Theory” fame, were disappointed to learn the university had largely outsourced the program, Tthe New York Times reported. “It was just ...

Federal officials are reviewing a missing‑scientists list that includes Caltech and NASA JPL, drawing California into a wave of online speculation.

Investigators are still searching for a motive behind the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 25.