Business
Inspired by the approach followed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the gift from a longtime Caltech donor will create the Brinson Exploration Hub to facilitate faster research by Caltech and JPL scientists and engineers.
March 21, 2024
Music
Seattle Swifties aren’t the only ones who can shake it off to seismic proportions. Taylor Swift’s L.A. fans also caused earthquake-like activity, a study says.
March 18, 2024
California
A few in the Golden State are deemed very high threats. I worried about that for a workday so you don’t have to.
Oct. 24, 2023
Caltech is dropping requirements for high school calculus, chemistry and physics courses for students without access to them and will offer other ways to demonstrate knowledge in those fields.
Aug. 31, 2023
Science & Medicine
Caltech chemistry professor and Nobel laureate Rudy Marcus turned 100 on Friday. He appreciated the festivities but was eager to get back to work.
July 21, 2023
Climate & Environment
The annual Perseid meteor shower requires us to leave behind our light-polluted cities for darker night skies that allow us to see the full luminosity of the celestial attraction.
July 18, 2024
During a career at JPL that spanned more than half a century, Pete Theisinger worked on missions to six planets, including Mars rovers and Voyager.
July 19, 2024
Opinion
The GOP and business leaders regularly bash California’s liberal-leaning policies and regulation. But they also depend on the state as a cash cow and source of global innovation.
Elon Musk’s announcement that he’s moving SpaceX headquarters to Texas could present a blow to Hawthorne and the Southern California space economy that it helped to revive.
Obituaries
Maarten Schmidt, astronomer whose discovery of quasars revealed the solar bodies that roam the universe, dies at 92.
Sept. 23, 2022