At the Universal Hilton shortly before the Holidays the Director General of Taiwan Tourism Bureau, Ms. Janice Lai, arrived from Taiwan to discuss what 2012 holds in store for visitors to Taiwan. She spoke to a captivated audience of travel journalists about th... More »
Pasadena’s Church of Truth is now offering the following ongoing weekly classes of metaphysical learning at the Center for Awakening Consciousness in meditation and spiritual matters. The center teaches “that there is a power within us greater than anything ... More »
After 10 straight trips to the postseason, the Pasadena City College women’s basketball team is facing its most uphill challenge in 2011-2012. The visiting Lancers once again dropped below the .500 mark in South Coast Conference play at 3-4 as they faltered a... More »
Givon Crump, in action during Wednesday’s win over ECC Compton Center, scored 34 points to help PCC beat East Los Angeles Friday night. Only one player on the Pasadena City College men’s basketball team is scoring in double figures average per game this seas... More »
After participating the last two seasons in the National Southern Conference, the Pasadena City College football team will return to the Southern California Football Association’s National Northern Conference in 2012. In their fifth season as part of the SCF... More »
A team of researchers at Caltech has devised a new method for making complex molecules. The reaction they have come up with should enable chemists to synthesize new varieties of a whole subclass of organic compounds called nitrogen-containing heterocycles, thu... More »
NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory soars over the Pinnacles near Mount Whitney, Calif., during a checkout flight in the winter of 1998. The aircraft will validate several specialized instruments, including a JPL airborne radar, for the future Global Preci... More »
Artist concept of Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL Engineers with NASA’s Cassini mission are conducting diagnostic testing on a part of the spacecraft’s radio system after its signal was not detected on Earth during a tracking pass in late December. ... More »
Huntington Memorial Hospital today announced that Wayne M. Brandt has joined its board of directors. Brandt is managing director and the western regional head of the Real Estate Capital Markets Group at Wells Fargo Bank. “We are happy to welcome Wayne to its... More »
Artist concept of GRAIL mission. Grail will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA will host a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), on Tuesday, Jan. 17, to ... More »
Harold Zirin, a leading figure in solar astronomy and professor of astrophysics, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on January 3. He was 82. Zirin was a pioneer in nearly all areas of solar astronomy, including solar radio astronomy. In particular, he made sign... More »
The data was taken with the 0.7-meter Catalina Schmidt Telescope on Mt. Bigelow in Arizona. [Credit: The CSS Survey Team, University of Arizona] Astronomers from Caltech and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that doc... More »
