Letters to the Editor
With incoming female freshmen outnumbering men for the first time, a graduate student at Caltech in the 1960s congratulates her former campus.
Sept. 2, 2024
California
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Aug. 27, 2024
Science & Medicine
Caltech has retired a telescope atop the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea following a cultural sea change in how people view land development on revered landmarks.
Aug. 2, 2024
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
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
Saturday’s earthquake was the seventh of magnitude 3 or greater since Sept. 12, when a magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu was widely felt across Southern California.
Sept. 28, 2024
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
Entertainment & Arts
The Times’ top picks for the weekend will take you to downtown L.A., Pasadena and the Joshua Tree region.
Oct. 4, 2024