At 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, after the streets were clear of trick-or-treaters and parties were winding down, a group of Caltech students were pushing crates of frozen pumpkins up the elevator in Millikan ...

Millikan Library is the tallest building on the Caltech campus. It is also the most sensitive. The sleek, gray nine-story building is home to 13 pocket-sized seismometers and a rooftop “shaker” that ...

In 1927 Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote a landmark opinion upholding a Virginia law authorizing forced sterilization of the mentally feeble “for the protection and health of the ...

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