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TCCI® Investigator Tao Hu Wins Outstanding Contribution Award
On May 25, Tao Hu, Deputy Director and Researcher at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, won an Outstanding Contribution Award for Young Scientists in Shanghai. Hu has been long been devoted to researching on new micro […]
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TCCI® and Tencent Games Jointly Launch First Brain Cognition Training Game
On May 16, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) announced Pavlov: Brain’it on, its first brain cognition training game jointly developed with Tencent Games. It is expected to go live within this year. The game is designed to improve the cognitive ability of teenagers. It consists of dozens of mini games that have different […]
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Caltech Announces Diversity and Inclusion Award Recipients
The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech announced the recipients of this year’s Chen Institute Diversity and Inclusion Awards. These awards, for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in neuroscience at Caltech, are intended to recognize active individuals for the uncompensated time and effort they are dedicating to achieve diversity and inclusion at […]
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Hungry Fruit Flies are Extreme Ultramarathon Fliers
In 2005, an ultramarathon runner ran continuously 560 kilometers (350 miles) in 80 hours, without sleeping or stopping. This distance was roughly 324,000 times the runner’s body length. Caltech scientists have discovered that fruit flies can fly up to 15 kilometers (9 miles) in a single journey—6 million times their body length, or the equivalent […]
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Reading Minds with Ultrasound: A Less-Invasive Technique to Decode the Brain’s Intentions
Mapping neural activity to corresponding behaviors is a major goal for neuroscientists developing brain–machine interfaces (BMIs): devices that read and interpret brain activity and transmit instructions to a computer or machine. Though this may seem like science fiction, existing BMIs can, for example, connect a paralyzed person with a robotic arm; the device interprets the […]
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2021 TCCI Spring Newsletter
Spring is always a time for renewal but this year perhaps more so than ever before as a new wave of optimism, fueled by the increasing pace of vaccinations, sweeps
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“What Is a Short Squeeze?” and Other Pressing Stock Market Questions Answered
Recently, the video game retailer GameStop and other struggling companies were part of an unprecedented movement in financial history in which armchair traders wildly disrupted the stock market. The traders’ meddling was possible thanks to online forums like those on Reddit and trading platforms such as Robinhood that let people buy and sell stocks for […]
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The Golden Age of Social Science
Some of the most challenging problems facing our world, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require not just one field of expertise but a unified interdisciplinary approach. Or so explains a team of social scientists at Caltech in a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Likening the report to […]
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Caltech Dedicates a Neuroscience Research Hub
Neuroscience has a new home. On Friday, January 29, Caltech hosted a virtual dedication for The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building (CNRB), the newest addition to campus. Although the pandemic prevented the community from gathering in person to celebrate the opening of the new building, more than 850 Caltech leaders, researchers, students, alumni, […]
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“Nuclear Physics”: Imaging into the Heart of a Cell
Nestled deep in the nucleus of each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Like a long, thin string of genetic spaghetti, this DNA blueprint for your whole body is folded and […]