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The family of the late Morton La Kretz has given the Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator its lab building on East Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena, securing a permanent home for the nonprofit, the incubator said. The incubator supports early-stage life science ... More »
A quick search of humanoid robot videos will deliver demonstrations of two-legged robots playing soccer, dancing, jumping several feet in the air, even competing in kickboxing matches. It is all dazzling, certainly. But roboticist Aaron Ames, the Booth-Kresa L... More »
Some cases of infertility may begin before a person is born — very early in embryonic development, when the cells that will one day become eggs and sperm first appear. A Pasadena laboratory now has $2.4 million from the state to study that early moment. The gr... More »
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is leading the U.S. component of a U.S.-India satellite mission that has documented the months-long spread of lava from a long-dormant volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, producing a time-lapse view that highli... More »
Smoke from the Eaton Fire sent toxic airborne contaminants soaring downwind, including lead levels up to 250 times above normal, but pollution returned to background levels within roughly six days after the flames were extinguished, according to findings from ... More »
LA Tech Week returns to Los Angeles from Oct. 12 to 18, an a16z-backed sprawl of hundreds of independently hosted events — dinners, panels, demos and mixers scattered across the county. Pasadena, in Los Angeles County, has claimed a corner of it. The local ho... More »
A geologic area on Mars that scientists expected to hold lakeshore sediment instead holds igneous rock that interacted with water on at least three separate occasions, according to a study published Monday that draws on data from NASA’s Perseverance rover. The... More »
What is the future of scientific discovery in the new age of artificial intelligence (AI)? This question inspired a recent special double issue of Daedalus, the official quarterly academic journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Two researchers a... More »
Two ocean-monitoring satellites carrying instruments contributed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are measuring sea levels during a strengthening El Niño, and the laboratory says the data will help produce more accurate hurricane predictions. Th... More »
A humanoid robot recently ran 100 meters faster than any person ever has. At the same games, it crashed into a barrier and had to be carried off on a stretcher… Both things happened last month at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, where a machine calle... More »
Intense, brief flashes of radio light that travel across billions of light-years to reach Earth can be used to measure how ordinary matter is spread through the universe, according to a new study that researchers say could help solve some of the biggest questi... More »
Picture a bundle of copper wires. Now imagine twisting them and striking them against a hard surface, over and over. Eventually the wires fray, and the current stops. That, a Pasadena neurologist told public-radio listeners on Aug. 25, is close to what repeate... More »
