Summit to SeeA monthly cross-country hike to a high point or other highlight of the sanctuary with natural history, photography, birding, etcPlease dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to bring a hat, an extra layer, and a snack. There are no ...
Miniature microscopes are being developed to examine tissue in situ for early anatomic and molecular indicators of disease, in real time, and at cellular resolution. These new devices will lead to a shift from the current diagnostic paradigm of biopsy followed by histopathology and recommended therapy, to one of non-invasive point-of-care diagnosis with the possibility of treatment in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Coping with climate change: 6 myths and 1 factChris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. He ...
The threat of climate change has profound implications for the evolution of the world's energy system over the coming decades. More than many environmental problems, uncertainty is a central characteristic of the problem – uncertainty regarding the physical science of climate but also uncertainty regarding the impacts, technologies (for mitigation, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Illuminating The Atomic World: The X-ray Free Electron Laser At SLACThe Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is the world's brightest source of hard X-ray laser light. Not only is this light a billion times brighter than any previous hard X-ray source, it also comes in strobe-like pulses just a few tens of femptoseconds long. This ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Warning California: Science and Technology to Reduce the Growing Earthquake ThreatSince 2003, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory has been hosting a free public lecture series in honor of Professor Andrew Lawson on earthquakes and earthquake science. Held every year in April, the lecture series highlights a broad range of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community.Speaker: Dr. Richard Allen, Berkeley Seismological ...
On April 22, 2012, a small asteroid impacted close to home in California-at Sutter's Mill, the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, leading to the California Gold Rush. Meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens kept a tally of finds and mobilized NASA Ames Research Center into leading the recovery ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members, $10 Seniors
Jeff Goodell is a best-selling author, journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. The New York Times called his book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future "a compelling indictment of one of the country's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries." Goodell is the author of ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $22
The Higgs Boson and Our LifeOn 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson (hunted for almost 50 years), which is a crucial piece for our understanding of fundamental physics and thus the structure and ...
