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The article discusses the introduction of near-field imaging to electron microscopy to develop real-time movies of nanometre-sized structures by Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The dubbed photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM) technique has the ability to alter the way scientists examine the nanoworld. Zewail mentions how his team work hard to discover fields of electrons within the nanostructures.

The article provides information on the research of neuroscientist Gilles Laurent of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, using locust as a model in experimenting the neural mechanisms of insects use to learn odors. He chose the locust as a model of his study in which he first began studying insect olfaction because it was a good way of tracing circuit function and neural computation in the brain. Meanwhile, the article also discusses the detailed experimental design and the results of the study.

The article presents information on various developments related to social sciences. Paper proposals on topics relating to the social and cultural analysis of science, technology, and medicine are invited for the 2005 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Deadline for submission of proposals is April 1, 2005. The meeting, scheduled for October 20-22, 2005, will be held at the Hilton Pasadena in Pasadena, California. In another development "Mephistos 2005," the 23rd annual international graduate student conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, will be held during March 5-6, 2005, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. The conference, hosted by the Program in Science &anmp; Technology Studies at Brown, is designed to give graduate students a chance to present papers, participate in discussions, and collaborate with other students in their field. Mephistos began in 1981 at Princeton University as a regional conference in the history and sociology of science, organized by graduate students at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.

A few months before its "official" discovery in September 1932 by Anderson at Cal Tech in Pasadena, the positron was almost simultaneously observed by no less than two additional research teams: one at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, and one at Institut du Radium in Paris, France. In this paper, we examine this curious case of multiple independent observations by studying the primary literature. This study identifies the motivations that led these researchers to independently design the experiments suitable for the detection of this novel particle and shows that none of these teams were looking for a positive electron. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article outlines the significance of outsourcing services to newspaper publishers in Pasadena, California. It is advantageous to the industry because it can lower down their costs and it become a well-established trend in other parts of the newspaper business that provide business and information technology, advertisement production, distribution and business services to newspapers in North America and Europe. It reveals that outsourcing parts of the newspaper enables them to save as much as 20% to 65% depending on the paper's starting cost base which were largely dependent on their locations' prevailing wage rate. INSETS: Why This Article?;Meet the Outsourcers.

In this paper, we describe a design study on how families in Los Angeles experience nature, with a particular focus on how using alternative formats for research analysis and presentation can enrich a design research inquiry. Conducted in Pasadena, CA as a part of Super Studio, the year-long design research class emphasized knowledge building and sharing through design methods of analysis, exhibition, and concept prototypes. After conducting interviews and engaging participants with probes, the class built the results into an open-ended knowledge environment. The main observation from the exhibition – that Angelenos have a limited vocabulary for describing nature and their interaction with it – helped to define the opportunity for design intervention that created connection points between Angelenos and nature. There are few attempts to describe how probe returns evolve into design concepts. Showcased is a process that depends on the unique affordances of design as the vehicle for discovery and invention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assesses the way Caltech handled two apparently unrelated cases of alleged scientific research fraud in the lab of biologist Leroy Hood. Comparisons to how the so-called Baltimore scientific fraud case was handled; Apparently falsified research paper figure of two research postdocs, Vipin Kumar and James Urban; Kumar's defense of his actions; Hood's decision to notify various agencies and universities involved with Kumar; Lingering concerns about Caltech's handling of cases.

The article introduces the issue which discusses various aspects of philosophical research and includes papers which were nominated by members of the 2008 Pacific Division Program Committee at the 2008 Pacific Division meeting in Pasadena, California.

The article reports on the discovery of the clumped isotope thermometry, a valuable tool for paleoenvironmental studies by a group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. The new tool was discovered by measuring the abundance of molecules which contain oxygen-isotope and the uncommon carbon-isotope. According to published papers, the results of early test of this clumped thermometer on corals and fish earbones were promising which provides a new record of ocean temperature during Paleozoic era.

Reveals that two researchers in the lab of Caltech biologist Leroy Hood are under investigation for two apparently unrelated instances of possible research fraud. Two recent papers have had to be retracted from journals.