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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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Visit the Planetary Society’s new Pasadena digs
The Planetary Society will host an open house Thursday at its new headquarters on South Grand Avenue. Free public tours will be given from 4 to 7 p.m., and visitors will also be able to meet Bill Nye, the society’s … Continue reading
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Nose Diving: TastingRoom’s tiny wine bottles have big tech behind them
In an operations center near the Sonoma County Airport, highly sensitive liquids are handled in a meticulous process that prevents their contamination. Exacting scientific standards require the most unpolluted environment possible: a semiconductor clean room, devoid of oxygen, into which … Continue reading
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Tagged column, Grgich Hills, kit, pairing, sample, science, taste test, tasting, Tasting Room, TastingRoom.com, technology, Tim Bucher, wine, wine country
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Curious worlds apart: Dual exhibits at Art Center’s Williamson Gallery in Pasadena
The exhibitions are dual: One looking back at the fascinating domain of patent models in the 1800s, the other looking forward to the future of objects conceived on computers and sprouted up by machines. One revolution has already changed the … Continue reading
Scenes from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory open house
Children laugh as a Mars rover test vehicle rolls over their backs on Saturday during NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory open house.
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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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Tagged animals, asteroid, Avatar, balloon, BP America, Caltech, crash, Exxon Valdez, giant, Gulf Coast, James Cameron, jellyfish, JPL, NASA, oil spill, photos, planet, science, threat, video, water, week in science, wildlife
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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
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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Women in space: Two astronauts have ties to Pasadena area
>>INSIDER There are a record-setting four women currently in space — two of them with ties to the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley area — and we wanted to know more about these trailblazing astronauts. As the Associated Press reported, … Continue reading
That’s genius: ‘E.T., e-mail home’ and other adventures in deep-space Internet with JPL’s Scott Burleigh
>>THINK Scott Burleigh of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one among a consortium of scientists and computer programmers working to turn interplanetary Internet from science fiction to reality. The deep-space Internet, which had to be specially designed to withstand the … Continue reading