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A Caltech chemical engineer who normally develops new ways to fabricate microprocessors in computers has figured out how to explain a nagging mystery in space -- why comets expel oxygen gas, the same ...

Providing a possible new route to hydrogen-gas production, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a series of chemical reactions that allows them, for the first ...

Caltech’s 2005 chemical engineering class makes a strong case against Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ controversial hypothesis that men are innately more proficient in math and science. The ...

During its time studying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft revealed that comets are active, dynamic objects with shifting landscapes and complex chemistry ...