Hailed as one of “32 Most Inspiring Museum Exhibitions to See Across the U.S.” by artnet news, Something Revealed; California Women Artists Emerge, 1860-1960 at the Pasadena Museum of History is one of the most celebrated fine art exhibitions in the nation. No... More »
On June 16, 2018, a brilliant stellar explosion unlike any seen before went off in the skies, quickly capturing the attention of astronomers around the globe. First spotted by the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, the event was dubbed AT2018cow through a randomized nami... More »
Save the date! Old Pasadena Management District announces the third annual BoldPas: A Day of Art & Play in Old Pasadena, scheduled for Saturday, June 8, 2019 in the commercial and historic heart of Pasadena, California – Old Pasadena. The free, one-day event e... More »
Honeybee Robotics, a private space technology company headquartered in Northwest Pasadena, has developed a spacecraft prototype that can gather water from cosmic bodies, heat it, and travel from asteroid to asteroid using steam power. The prototype was develop... More »
In a new Caltech-led study, researchers from campus and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have analyzed pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar—a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong magnetic field—that is located near the supermassive black hole at the h... More »
Understanding earthquakes is a challenging problem—not only because they are potentially dangerous but also because they are complicated phenomena that are difficult to study. Interpreting the massive, often convoluted data sets that are recorded by earthquake... More »
A new mobile app powered by a system developed largely in Pasadena will soon start sounding alarms in pockets and purses across Los Angeles County to let residents know an earthquake is seconds away, creators said. ShakeAlertLA can be downloaded free on both A... More »
This summer, Maria Hernandez—a student at Santa Monica Community College—lived in Caltech student housing and spent her days in Beverley McKeon’s lab, building an autonomous submersible robot from scratch. This was the second summer in a row that Hernandez par... More »
The Pasadena-based Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) announced engineers have this week begun excavation at the telescope’s site at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, where the Giant Magellan Telescope will be mounted. In the not too distant fut... More »
Arsenic-contaminated drinking water is a major health hazard, with chronic exposure causing illnesses and cancers. The World Health Organization estimates that in Bangladesh, for example, over 5 million people were exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking wate... More »
Since we can’t yet travel to planets outside our solar system, JPL intern Tre’Shunda James creates models of them right here on Earth. We caught up with the Occidental College physics and chemistry major to learn how she’s pointing the way toward potentially h... More »
A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest’s carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This is the first study to quantify the long-term legacy of an Ama... More »
