For decades, every time a visitor heads downstairs into the Caltech Athenaeum Rathskellar for a burger and a brew, he has been confronted with a poster-size, blown-up, grainy but still magnificent ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Caltech students have reclaimed a 3-ton cannon that was swiped by pranksters from MIT. Caltech students recapture their cannon, which had been stolen and moved to MIT, on Monday.

PASADENA >> Julie Jester is a fitting name for the Caltech electrical engineering senior. In her career, she’s lead a pack of jokers in small-scale pranks, foolies and jests throughout Caltech and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cannon retrieval may not be rocket science, but a group of intrepid, cross-country-trekking Caltech students has learned it isn’t much easier. On Monday, two dozen of the ...

Fifty years ago Sunday, Lyn Hardy and a group of Caltech students pulled off one of the greatest pranks of all time on one of football's biggest stages. Hardy is the "mastermind" behind the 1961 Rose ...

May 25, 1956: Pranksters at Caltech pulled off a major coup, disassembling an engineering student’s small foreign car and reassembling it in the basement of Throop Hall in a place where it blocked a ...

PASADENA — Caltech’s tradition of pranksterism was celebrated today as seniors went AWOL for “Ditch Day” and left mazes and puzzles for younger students to solve. Ditch Day began in the 1920s, when ...

People must really worry that the Alamo (aka the Astor Place Cube) gets cold at night! In October Olek went and knitbombed the giant moveable sculpture and then this morning a reader sent in the above ...