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Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Nearby StarsThe NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common, but most of the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars that are too faint to permit detailed study. Excitingly, the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018 and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Quantifying Watershed Behavior using Geophysical MethodsQuantifying how terrestrial systems respond to climate change and other perturbations is challenging due to the complexity of associated processes that occur from bedrock-to-canopy and over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. This presentation describe the development of several new approaches to help bridge these compartments and scales ...
Come for an evening of learning about how foods have changed over centuries and how they are being modified today. Use of modern tools of genetics allows researchers to make changes in the genetic makeup of some foods we use and eat in a than we have made such changes ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
SuperSight: Spatial Computing and the Evolution of EyesThe human eye is amazing. It contains 120 million photoreceptors, discerns 10 million colors, blinks in less than a tenth of a second, and aside from the brain, is the body’s most complicated organ. But, for all of its sophistication, the human eye hasn’t evolved in thousands of years. That’s ...
Mirrors, arguably the first “virtual reality” technology, lie at the intersection of nature, culture, and self-recognition. Once small, rare, and owned only by the wealthy, today mirrors are everywhere and are key to many modern tools, from HDTVs to solar-power plants and space telescopes. Reflect on mirrors and the nature ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
NightLife Spotlight: FlightSoar with NightLife as we explore the wonderful world of flight.Get your late-night science wings while learning about the science of flying with birds, butterflies, and bats.Learn about the evolution of flight in a wide range of creatures with specimens from our scientific collections, from fossils to terrestrial arthropods and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
New Mapping of the Rodgers Creek Fault: It's longer and more complex than we thought+ Remote sensing technology reveals surface traces of the fault covered by trees and buildings+Greater fault length and linkages to neighboring faults make larger earthquakes possible+Fault complexity has implications for hazards from ground shaking and surface fault ruptureSpeaker: Suzanne Hecker, USGS