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Stephen Hawking to give public talk Tuesday at Caltech

Famed theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking will be at Caltech on Tuesday for a free public lecture. From insights into the birth of the cosmos, the death of black holes, and even the future of the human race, Hawking’s … Continue reading

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Week in science: Oil spill threat spreads | James Cameron helping to bring 3-D to Mars | A monster jellyfish of the deep

Image: Dr. Erica Miller, left, and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research work Friday to help a Northern Gannet bird, normally white when full grown, which is covered in oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of … Continue reading

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Week in science: Hubble telescope celebrates 20 years | Spitzer ‘tastes’ a methane-free planetary puzzler | Adoptive parents bring biases to process

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In the spirit of the occasion, the famous telescope has captured this phantasmagorical image deep within the Carina Nebula. Not too shabby for a telescope with two decades under its belt. NASA … Continue reading

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Week in science: Donner Party cannibalism in question | JPL satellites eye Iceland volcano chain | Striking images from Saturn

>>THINK  A bone to pick: Was the Donner Party’s legendary cannibalism just a myth? A new study of the bones found at the Donner’s campsite in California’s Sierra Nevadas suggests the snowbound pioneers may not have eaten each other after … Continue reading

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The week in science: Space station rendezvous, a WISE-eyed beauty and bullets of sound

>>THINK  Space shuttle Discovery docked at the International Space Station early Wednesday, after a rare antenna breakdown that knocked out radar tracking. Today, a pair of astronauts completed a spacewalk to disconnect an old, empty ammonia tank outside the station, … Continue reading

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‘Pasadena Babalon’: The world of Jack Parsons, on stage at Caltech

>>GO  “Pasadena Babalon” lives in the in-between space of things we know and don’t know about John Whiteside Parsons. Jack, they called him; He, the young genius of a nascent aerospace industry as it emerged in Southern California, of the … Continue reading

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What a girl wants: Robots and jazz

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That’s genius: By day, Kjerstin Williams is a robotics engineer; By night, she croons a smooth tune in Pasadena-area joints

>>THINK Kjerstin Williams is the second of three geniuses featured in Rose Magazine’s cover story. If you’re not green with envy over her day job — working with robots at Applied Minds — then her night job ought to do … Continue reading

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That’s genius: Caltech’s John Dabiri tells us why you should care about a brainless, boneless creature

Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance >>THINK Rose Magazine cover subject John Dabiri is only 29, and he’s already racking up serious accolades, like this one from the White House, for his research on jellyfish. Dabiri isn’t a … Continue reading

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