The Pasadena Education Network (PEN), a local non-profit organization that promotes family participation in public education in Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre to benefit all students, has hired Evangelina Rivera as the Director of Community Outreach. Rivera will help PEN expand their reach so all parents can be actively involved in their children’s education. Since parent involvement is d... More »
The 2013 Carl Sagan Fellows (left to right): Jared Males, University of Arizona, Tucson; Katja Poppenhaeger, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; Jacob Simon, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Jennifer Yee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.; Avi Shporer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has ... More »
The First United Methodist Church, located at 500 E Colorado Blvd in Pasadena will host an Earth Day celebration today, Sunday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m. to encourage attendees to adopt new environmentally friendly habits. The event, titled “One New Habit to Help Our Planet,” will be held on the church’s Colorado Patio after Sunday worship services and will feature a range of activities and resource... More »
California will have to build public charging stations at an unprecedented — and some experts say unrealistic — pace to meet the needs of the 7 million electric cars expected on its roads in less than seven years. The sheer scale of the buildout has alarmed many experts and lawmakers, who fear that the state won’t be prepared as Californians purchase more electric cars. A million public chargers a... More »
After spending the last two-and-a-half months settling into its new home on the Red Planet and documenting the historic flights of the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Perseverance Mars Rover has begun flexing its instrument-laden robotic arm to conduct science. The intrepid robot’s cameras, lasers and other equipment have already been put to work studying the floor of Pe... More »
America Online’s network of hyperlocal Patch websites faces shutdowns and layoffs this week which could shutter as many as 300 of it sites nationwide and leave up to 550 members of it workforce unemployed. It is not yet known which of eight local sites will be closed or sold. Patch has separate sites covering Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Arcadia, San Marino, South Pasadena, the Glendale-Montr... More »
These images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the appearance of dark markings on Martian slope changes with the seasons. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings — possibly due to salty water – that advance seasonally down slop... More »
