A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

Pasadena City Council will hear an appeal Monday, March 2, of the Design Commission’s approval of a Caltech building proposed to be built next to a church.

A man accused of killing acclaimed astrophysicist Carl Grillmair had faced trouble with the law, including gun charges and a suspected burglary, weeks before the deadly encounter in Antelope Valley.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freddy Snyder, 29, has been charged in connection with Grillmair's slaying, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department A ...

Carl Grillmair was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published stories in ...

A highly acclaimed Caltech scientist was fatally shot on the porch of his home in Los Angeles. At around 6:10 a.m. local time on Monday, Feb. 16, deputies found a 67-year-old man lying on a porch with ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...

A new report by the Amcha Initiative accuses faculty in the University of California (UC) system of encouraging antisemitism across its campuses. The report, released Wednesday, said faculty and ...

James B. Murray Jr. is a former rector of the boards of the University of Virginia and William & Mary. Meredith Woo, former dean of arts and sciences at the University of Virginia and former president ...

Arne Duncan, founder of the community violence intervention group Chicago CRED, was U.S. education secretary from 2009 to 2015. David Pressman, a national security and human rights lawyer, was U.S.

The list — The World’s Top Universities of 2026 — ranks 500 universities, focused on the “extent to which students achieve extraordinary success,” such as by patenting new inventions or taking on ...