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A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel highly aversive, depending on who is delivering the touch, and to whom. Interested in how the brain makes connections between touch a... More »
This large copper cylindrical vessel is the Enriched Xenon Observatory 200’s (EXO-200) time projection chamber, the part of the detector that contains the liquid xenon, isotopically enriched in xenon-136. The photo shows the chamber being inserted into the cry... More »
(Left) Fred BS ’62 and Joyce Hameetman during the 2009 dedication of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, which houses the Hameetman Auditorium. (Right) Fred Hameetman (far left) with fellow classmates at the 1962 grand opening of Winnett Student ... More »
After capturing the CCCAA state 200-yard butterfly title, Pasadena City College swimmer Stephen To learned his 1:50.52 time finished second fastest in the nation. To earned 2012 All-American honors in both the 200 and 100-butterfly events (ninth in the natio... More »
The Gathering, sponsored by the Salvation Army’s U.S.A. Western Territory, is the largest convention ever booked by the Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB). It is estimated to generate $1.4 million for Pasadena when it comes to town June 7 – 10, 2012... More »
Benjamin Johnson, a 20 year-old Downey resident, was arrested early Wednesday morning for the theft of Miguel Santamaria’s car, dog and other property. Santamaria was found dead on May 21 in his apartment in the 1600 block of Amberwood Dr. in the City of S... More »
NASA’s Global Hawk soars aloft from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over-fly hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet with flight durations of up to 28 hours – something pil... More »
Medicare’s new method for buying medical supplies and equipment—everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks—is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new study by Caltech researchers. The Center for Medicar... More »
Today, Rep. Adam Schiff met with over twenty students from Aveson Charter School in Altadena as part of their annual field trip to Washington, D.C. “It was great to meet a group of such bright and engaged students today who were visiting from Aveson Charter ... More »
Artist concept of lightning on Venus. Image credit: ESA A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event — occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun between... More »
Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science... More »
Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been named a co-winner of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his efforts to understand the outer solar... More »
