Chapman filmmaker’s UFO film a modest success
Image courtesy of Golden Circle Films The first major nationally-released movie directed by a graduate of Chapman University’s film program enjoyed modest success this weekend when the alien abduction tale  “The Fourth Kind” generated about $12.5 million, placing

NASA sets date for Caldwell’s trip to space station
Tracy Caldwell, a Cal State Fullerton graduate and former UC Irvine researcher, will leave Earth for six months of service aboard the International Space Station on April 2, says NASA, which has formally made her part of “Expedition 23″ to ISS. Caldwell, 40, will serve as a flight engineer,

Animation of this week’s OC-area earthquakes
It was seismically quiet week in and around Orange County, with the region mostly recording microquakes that weren’t felt by many people. One tiny shake occurred on an unidentified fault not far from Disneyland. Another happened east of Rancho Santa Margarita. And there was a hiccup on the Newport-Inglewood fault, in the Newport area. The notable action occurred to the

Bet you can’t identify this photograph
I’ll give a nice science book to the first two readers who can identify specifically what this photo shows and where it is located. You can email your answer to grobbins@ocregister.com, or place your answer in the Comments section. If you’re certain you know the answer, please do not include

Tiny earthquake near Disneyland
A magnitude 1.9 microquake occurred at 3:19 p.m. near the intersection of Cerritos Avenue and South Brookhurst Street in Anaheim, roughly four blocks from Disneyland, the U.S. Geological Survey says. The earthquake, which doesn’t appear to have been felt, happened 16 miles deep, which is unusually far down for a shaker in Southern California. The quake occurred on