Engineering & Science Magazine
by Caltech
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Description
Caltech's Engineering & Science magazine is the Institute's flagship publication, exploring the ideas and discoveries of researchers, students, and alumni. Founded in 1937, its goal is to present to a scientifically literate audience a lively picture of the intellectual life and research activities at Caltech and to promote interest in science and scientific issues.
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| 1 | E&S Volume 74, Number 3, Fall 2011 | Getting a Caltech education is often likened to trying to drink from a fire hose-there's a lot to take in, and most of it is going to get by you. However, the right professor can fill your brain without leaving you all wrung out. In this issue: -Lessons from an Earthquake -Learning and the Brain -Caltech's Prized teachers | 11/15/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | E&S Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2012 | In this translational medicine issue: -Minding Brains -Mending Retinas -Pumping Blood | 1/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | E&S Volume 75, Number 1, Spring 2012 | In this issue: -Planetary Foundations -Lightening Strength -Under One Roof | 5/2/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | E&S Volume 75, Number 2, Summer 2012 | In this issue: -Travel through space and time with Caltech's scientists | 7/30/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | E&S Volume 75, Number 3, Fall 2012 | This issue of E&S describes just a few ways in which Caltech's science and engineering efforts have expanded human knowledge and benefitted society. | 10/18/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | E&S Volume 75, Number 4, Winter 2012 | This issue of E&S describes just a few ways in which Caltech's science and engineering efforts have expanded human knowledge and benefitted society. | 1/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | E&S Volume 76, Number 1, Spring 2013 | This issue of E&S looks at how the Institute's commitment to intellectual and creative autonomy builds a foundation for the movement of new ideas and technologies from initial experiment to real-life application. | 3/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | E&S Volume 76, Number 2, Summer 2013 | In this issue of E&S you'll read about some of the big ideas and questions our people are pursuing. From Tom Heaton's advances in earthquake warning systems to the exploration of exoplanets in our universe — these efforts are offering answers to some of the world's most difficult questions. | 7/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | E&S Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2013 | Caltech students are being shaped by the information they are learning in the classrooms and by the data they are gathering in its labs. This issue of E&S provides a glimpse into what may well be looked back on as a period of transition in science, engineering, and education. | 10/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | E&S Volume 76, Number 4, Winter 2013 | This issue of E&S, which looks at "space" in its myriad forms, also examines how Caltech's scientists and alumni collaborated with their JPL colleagues to send the Voyager spacecraft out into the interstellar medium in which it now finds itself. | 1/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | E&S Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2014 | We've devoted this issue of E&S to telling a few of the stories about how life and science and engineering intersect at Caltech—in labs devoted to understanding aging at the cellular level, to getting to know how the microbes in our guts impact our health, to creating robotic jellyfish from silicone and muscle tissues, to taking basic findings in the life sciences and turning them into technologies and applications that really make a difference. | 5/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | E&S Volume 77, Number 2, Summer 2014 | In this issue, we consider the findings of the BICEP2 telescope which was born and bred right here at Caltech, and whose team made remarkable findings about what happened to the universe at the time of the Big Bang. We also look at the myriad ways in which Caltech 's scientists use mirrors as an integral part of the research that ranges from looking at the ways in which cells interact with objects in their environment to the search for gravitational waves. Finally, we've included a short Q&A with incoming president, Thomas F. Rosenbaum. | 8/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | E&S Volume 77, Number 3, Fall 2014 | In this issue, we consider just how Caltech's humanists and social scientists work to deepen our knowledge and understanding of our world. They do this using the same kind of intellectual rigor that is one of Caltech's signature characteristics, applying innovative and precise methodologies to imaginative and bold questions. | 10/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | E&S Volume 77, Number 4, Winter 2014 | In this issue, we consider how Caltech's tradition of leadership in the building and operation of the world's most advanced telescopes has influenced the development of—and technology behind--the Thirty Meter Telescope. We look at how Caltech-bred technologies have led to the smartphones that are nearly ubiquitous in today's society. We also eavesdrop a bit on the workshops created by the Keck Institute for Space Studies to find out how their innovative technologies are leading scientists and engineers from across the globe to think differently about how space science is done. | 1/16/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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