Pre-Release Screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to PowerA decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight traveling around the world training an army of climate ...
To coincide with the Kepler & K2 Science Conference taking place in Mountain View, the Academy is pleased to host a double-header talk by two scientists who use the Kepler Mission to explore different aspects of the Universe! David Charbonneau discovers exoplanets with Kepler, while Ruth Angus studies the ages ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
NASA's Kepler mission, launched in 2009, has discovered the vast majority of planets known to orbit stars other than the Sun. Statistical arguments - based on Kepler observations - conclude that "habitable" planets in the Milky Way galaxy number in the billions!