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Just as earthquakes have defined much of the physical and cultural landscape of Southern California from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake to 1994’s Northridge temblor, CalTech’s famed Seismological ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake woke Angelenos at 4:30 in the morning on January 17th, 1994. Called the Northridge Earthquake, it killed fifty-seven people and caused between $20 and $40 billion worth of ...

At first glance, this may seem like a page from a spy novel, complete with a young undercover agent roaming an empty lab after dark, with thousands of files mysteriously uploaded from a computer to a ...

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...