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10/22/2009 Astronauts on the Web
10/15/2009 Caltech Researchers Reveal Unexpected Sources of Nitrogen Fixation
08/12/2009 Caltech Scientists Discover Storms in the Tropics of Titan
08/04/2009 Research Shows Earliest Animals Lived in Lake Environment
07/16/2009 Caltech, JPL Researchers Provide Evidence that Microbial Mats Helped Build 3.4-Billion-Year-Old Stromatolites
06/03/2009 Geology Grad Students Lead Kids on an Educational Hike (June 2009)
02/25/2009 Caltech Grad Students and Professor Participate in Local Public Middle School's Science and Math Fair
02/04/2009 Caltech Scientists Lead Deep-Sea Discovery Voyage
12/03/2008 Potential for Large Earthquake Off the Coast of Sumatra Remains Large, Says Caltech-Led Team of Scientists
10/21/2008 Caltech Geobiologists Discover Unique "Magnetic Death Star" Fossil
06/25/2008 Giant Impact Explains Mars Dichotomy
05/27/2008 Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes
05/21/2008 The Science Behind China's Sichuan Earthquake
05/09/2008 Partnerships of Deep-Sea Methane Scavengers Revealed
04/10/2008 A Grand Canyon as Old as the Dinosaurs?
03/18/2008 Water Vapor Detected in Protoplanetary Disks
01/02/2008 From Rockets to Spacecraft: Making JPL a Place for Planetary Science (pdf)
01/02/2008 The Fall and Rise (and Fall?) of Life on Mars (pdf)
01/02/2008 What Lies Beneath (pdf)
01/02/2008 Voyager's Odyssey (pdf)
01/02/2008 Snatching Some Sun (pdf)
12/14/2007 Tracking Earth Changes with Satellite Images
12/13/2007 Earthquake Season in the Himalayan Front
11/26/2007 Genetic Underpinnings of Wood Digestion by Termite Gut Microbes Revealed
10/26/2007 Tracing the Roots of the California Condor
10/11/2007 Ingersoll Receives Achievement Award
09/14/2007 Scientists Devise New Method to Chart Ancient Climate
07/11/2007 Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet
06/28/2007 For the Love of Termites (pdf)
06/14/2007 Dwarf Planet Eris is More Massive Than Pluto, New Data Shows
06/12/2007 Caltech Astrophysicist Peter Goldreich Wins $1 Million International Shaw Prize
06/08/2007 Caltech Seismologist Hiroo Kanamori Awarded Kyoto Prize by Inamori Foundation
04/10/2007 The Secret Lives of Minerals (pdf)
03/30/2007 Caltech's Planet Hunter Mike Brown Wins Feynman Prize for Teaching
03/14/2007 Kuiper-belt Object Broken up by Impact 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows
01/25/2007 How We Hit That Sucker: The Story of Deep Impact (pdf)
01/25/2007 Planetary Exploration in Extremis (pdf)
12/06/2006 Geologists Provide New Evidence for Reason Behind Rise of Life in Cambrian Period
12/04/2006 Anticipating Another Sumatran Tsunami
11/30/2006 Our Atmosphere: The View from Above (pdf)
11/28/2006 Geobiologists Solve "Catch-22 Problem" Concerning the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
09/14/2006 Xena Officially Named Eris, IAU Announces
08/28/2006 Satellites Map Earthquake Displacement in Detail
08/24/2006 Xena Awarded "Dwarf Planet" Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight Planets
08/10/2006 New Way to Assess How Buildings Would Stand Up in Big Quakes
07/28/2006 Bacteria Are Beautiful (pdf)
06/29/2006 Study of 8.7-Magnitude Earthquake Lends New Insight into Post-Shaking Processes
04/26/2006 A Nice Place to Visit? (pdf)
04/18/2006 Moore Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to Caltech
04/11/2006 Hubble Obtains Best-Ever Size Measurement of Xena
03/30/2006 Fault That Produced Largest Aftershock Ever Recorded Still Poses Threat to Sumatra
03/09/2006 Tsunami Study Forces Rethinking of Giant Earthquakes
02/10/2006 Red Earth, White Earth, Green Earth, Black Earth (pdf)
01/19/2006 Dust in Earth Sediment Traced to Ancient Asteroid Breakup
12/08/2005 Caltech Researchers Invent New Technique for Studying the Thermal History of Rocks
11/29/2005 Powerful New Supercomputer Analyzes Earthquakes
11/10/2005 Corals Could Lead to Better Understanding of Climate Change
10/24/2005 Surface Geology Creates Clouds on Titan
10/24/2005 Watson Lecture: Marvelous Mars Rovers
10/24/2005 Geologists Uncover New Evidence about the Rise of Oxygen
10/19/2005 Caltech Faculty Member Joins Mars Rover Team
10/03/2005 Tenth Planet Has a Moon
09/22/2005 Light Quakes Hit Kern County
09/08/2005 Work Continues on the Solar System's Three Recently Discovered Objects
08/19/2005 Ronald Scott Dies; Designed Soil Scoop for Early Unmanned Moon Mission
08/01/2005 Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused the Worst Snowball Earth Episode
07/29/2005 Planetary Scientists Discover Tenth Planet
07/26/2005 The Great Sumatran Quake
07/21/2005 Mars in Deep Freeze for Past Four Billion Years
05/18/2005 Research on Sumatran Quakes Uncovers New Mysteries
03/28/2005 Giant Earthquake Strikes Sumatra
02/22/2005 In Indonesia: Final Notes and Photographs from a Field Geologist (Update 2/22/05)
02/11/2005 In Indonesia: Notes and Photographs from a Field Geologist (Update 2/11/05)
02/04/2005 In Indonesia: Notes and Photographs from a Field Geologist (Update 2/4/05)
02/02/2005 In Indonesia: Notes and Photographs From a Field Geologist
01/26/2005 Collected Notes From a Geologist in Sumatra
01/20/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field--UPDATE 1/20/05
01/16/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field--NEW UPDATE 1/16/05
01/15/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field--UPDATED 1/15/05
01/14/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field--UPDATED 1/14/05
01/10/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field--UPDATED 1/10/05
01/07/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field UPDATED 1/7/05
01/07/2005 Public Briefing on South Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
01/05/2005 In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field
01/04/2005 How Science Can Save Lives
12/30/2004 The Science Behind the Aceh Earthquake
10/28/2004 Observing the Roiling Earth
10/28/2004 Titan's Surface a Mystery
09/28/2004 Asimow Takes Part in "South Pacific Odyssey"
09/14/2004 Caltech Receives NSF Grant for Geodynamics Facility
08/31/2004 Farley Named Chair of Geological and Planetary Sciences
08/23/2004 Novel Method for Studying Ancient Life Forms
07/21/2004 San Andreas Temblors Usually Large, Researchers Find
07/21/2004 Kanamori Awarded Japan Academy Prize
03/18/2004 Some Earthquakes Exhibit Super-Shear Phenomenon
03/15/2004 Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered
12/15/2003 Geophysicists Gain New Insights on Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary
10/13/2003 The Cutting Edge of Tectonics
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