2019 Issue

Taming the System

How Riot Games’ Naomi McArthur keeps the peace in online gaming—and how those lessons can extend to real life by Alexander GelfandChristina GandolfoGame designer Naomi McArthur (BS ’13) might not have a badge and a gun. But in the world of multiplayer online games,...

The Food Lab

Harold McGee, the (somewhat reluctant) “godfather of molecular gastronomy,” talks to us about the first workshop that brought cooks and scientists together, how it came to be, and how the science of cooking became popular. by April WhiteEric MilletteCaltech...

Corporations Could Be the Best Weapon in Combating Climate Change

An essay by Nicola Peill-Moelter (PhD ’97), Director of Sustainability Innovation at VMware. by NIcola Peill-MoelterEdmon De HaroTHERE IS THIS POPULAR, long-held notion that business and the environment are at odds. That conservation is a fight against capitalism and...

Water World

Taking on the water crisis at home and abroad by Steven Boyd Saum Illustrated by Valerie Chiang When it comes to water, the story of Cape Town, South Africa, is a cautionary tale for Southern California and other areas across the United States, says Adrian Hightower...
Moonshot

Moonshot

Last year, Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)—an interdisciplinary research center that is developing the next generation of autonomous robots—announced five ambitious goals to guide its work.

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