You've created a wildly successful webcomic about life in academia that is followed avidly by readers all around the world. You want to do a film adaptation. Who you gonna call? If you're Jorge Cham, ...

Caltech presents a comedy about selling your soul for fame, fortune, and a Nobel Prize. Graduate student Johann Faustus is going nowhere. He’s published no papers, wooed no women, and his lab work ...

It's not that Raymond Weitekamp isn't making sense, it's just that the things he's talking about right now – polymers and the various wavelengths of the light spectrum and such – are impenetrable ...

The creator of the popular online comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" has turned it into a feature film. The PhD Movie, which opened this week at a handful of US universities, will be screened at ...

Last year, Concordia alumnus and current Caltech PhD student Niccolo Cymbalist urged me to apply to a competition called the Caltech Space Challenge. When I heard it was a chance to plan a manned ...

Why turn the comic strip into a movie? The spark was a spoof of a Lady Gaga video put together by some scientists in Texas. It looked like so much fun. But a lot of things were pointing in that ...

CHICAGO, Illinois--How game theory and insights from cognitive psychology can shed light on the economic choices people and corporations make will be the focus of a topical lecture presented by ...