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NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has a complex set of mirrors, or optics, that will help it see high-energy X-ray light in greater detail than ever before. These images show different views of one of two optic units onboard NuSTAR, each... More »
There are trillions of bacteria living in our bodies, making up complex communities of microbes regulating processes like digestion and immunity. For Caltech biologist Sarkis Mazmanian, they also make up the focus of his research: understanding how the “good” ... More »
The public is invited to join Pasadena city officials at the new Pasadena Community Gardens for the special groundbreaking event at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 9 for the City’s first public community garden site with individual plots for growing fresh fruits, veget... More »
An artist’s depiction of the twin spacecraft that comprise NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. During the GRAIL mission’s science phase, spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) transmit radio signals precisely defining the distance between them ... More »
Later this week, a four-wheeled robot designed and built by Caltech undergraduate students will maneuver, apparently under its own guidance, through various challenges at the NASA Johnson Space Center Rock Yard in Houston. In actuality, the robot’s every move ... More »
The South Pasadena Police Department and investigating detectives have received preliminary information from the LA County Coroner’s Office that the death of Miguel Santamaria at his residence in the 1600 block of Amberwood Dr. was a result of natural causes. ... More »
On Thursday, May 24th, at approximately 9:30 a.m., a Pasadena Police Officer was injured by a laser strike while flying over the City of San Gabriel. The helicopter crew was not wearing their protective eyewear at the time of the attack; however, they identifi... More »
Sen. Carol Liu(D-La Cañada Flintridge) recently named five local women, including Pasadena City College’s Esther Takei Nishio and Theresa Reed, as “Women of the Year†honorees for the 21st Senate District. It is a tradition of the California State Legis... More »
DNA tile ribbons (shown here in an atomic force microscopy image) can store information in their arrangement of tiles—12.5nm x 4nm x 2nm self-assembled DNA structures. This information can be propagated during ribbon growth, and replicated in a cycle of ribb... More »
These series of radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 were obtained by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. on Sept 23, 1999. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in , has accurately determined the mass ... More »
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will hold a news conference on Wednesda... More »
One day each spring, kept secret until the last minute, Caltech seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus, leaving behind complex, imaginative scavenger hunts, mazes, puzzles, and other challenges that are carefully planned out to occupy the undercl... More »
