The board of Pasadena-based Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will decide on Monday and Tuesday where in the world to build a unique, $1.2 billion instrument many believe will produce images 12 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. The project is conside... More »
A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, has completed its report. NASA’s OCO satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide launched aboard a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in C... More »
My Tattoo, a local tattoo parlor in Alhambra, will represent family system tradition next weekend when the 15-year old shop’s artists join more than 350 worldwide tattooists at the Body Art Expo in Pomona. Owned by Jesse Yen, My Tattoo operates on a family s... More »
Dr. Lorne M. Buchman has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Art Center College of Design on Wednesday, the school’s Board of Trustees announced this week. Dr. Buchman, only the fifth president of Art Center since its founding nearly 80 ... More »
Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Scripps Research Institute have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the place of the antibodies used in many standard... More »
Los Angeles may become a suburb of Oakland in the distant future, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists said in a videocast and live chat on Monday. Airing live on NASA JPL’s channel available on Ustream TV on July 6 at 5 p.m., the “Quake Chat” featured... More »
Michelle Noonan thinks she has an interesting job. So when she was forwarded a Craig’s List online posting for a casting-call advertisement searching for people with interesting jobs, she just had to inquire. Turns out, the postdoctoral chemistry scholar at Ca... More »
A NASA Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) project that has been in development for several years is now in the application phase and will be useful in deciphering what happens during and after large earthquakes in Southern California,... More »
Cinco de Mayo was celebrated at the Pasadena Senior Center on Tuesday with a colorful performance by the Ballet Folklorico Xotziquetzalli in the Center’s Auditorium after a Mexican lunch before a crowd of about 65 onlookers. Ballet Director Ana Marie Chavelas ... More »
[smooth=id:2] About 60 well-wishers gathered at the Pasadena Museum of History Sunday afternoon to honor local community activist Roberta MartÃnez, whose book “Latinos in Pasadena” is scheduled to released by Arcadia Publishing on April 27. MartÃnez’s book l... More »
