Richard Crossley will talk about birding lessons learned from living on 3 continents to paying back through conservation initiatives and youth birding. He will also talk about the unique design of his books - some of it will surprise you! Come and get to know Richard in a beautiful setting; ...
Where: CupertinoCost: Free
Saturday, 10/29/22
Halloween: Spooky ScienceUncover the creepy crawlies of the night in our special Halloween science program. Learn about animals and insects that frighten us and get to see them up close. People of all ages are welcome to come in full costume, ready to trick-or-treat for a frightful collection of spiders, insects, bats, ...
Join us as we crawl and slither into the spooky world of bats, spiders, and snakes! Learn some animal tricks and make some treats as we explore these amazing animals and their importance in our ecosystem.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
All About Bats - EcoCenter Family EventBring your family to the Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, located on the Baylands Nature Preserve, for an afternoon of environmental education. Activities are intended for ages 6-11.Are you curious about bats? Join the Environmental Volunteers in our Community Program, All About Bats to learn about different types of bats, how they ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Halloween Hike & SipThe journey begins at sunset from the Center into the beautiful surrounding redwood forest. We’ll moderately hike 3-4.25 miles (90-120 minutes) along some of the most popular trails as you learn about the history of Oakland, local plants, and the majestic Redwood trees. We’ll stop to watch the first few ...
Where: OaklandCost: $30 General, $27 Members
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is amonthly public stargazing event! Join us on the 4th floor planetarium for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to become one of the top 35 ...
Experience hands-on science in the Fruitvale community with bilingual Cal scientists in celebration of Dia de los Muertos with Science at Cal and The Lawrence On-The-Go team!
Welcome to outer space. Life is harsh out here. We come from a beautiful, pale blue dot thriving with a wide variety of life. And now we're planning for lunar bases and heading off to Mars. These worlds - and others in our solar system - are not friendly to ...
In this talk I will discuss recent results from a collaboration between the Simon & Schuster labs, where we have developed techniques for assembling quantum matter from strongly interacting microwave photons. Beginning with a description of the platform - an array of capacitively coupled transmon qubits acting as a Hubbard-regime ...
Stars and star clusters in the distant Universe seen through Einstein’s LensGalaxy clusters are the most massive gravitational lenses Nature offers that really augment our observational capability to study celestial objects in the younger Universe using man-made telescopes. In recent years, a growing list of individual stars or clusters of stars that acquire large to extreme gravitational magnification factors have been ...
With the COP27 in Egypt and the G20 in Indonesia just weeks away, we will discuss some of the unique challenges facing developing countries pursuing energy transition. While cost declines for solar and wind technologies over the past decade have made renewable energy competitive with fossil-fuel based power, investment in ...
Market Street and Montgomery Street, parallel to the Salesforce Transit Center and Park - serve as two of San Francisco’s most significant transit arteries. Every day, cars, buses, cyclists, and pedestrians travel these streets, likely unaware of a neighbor that’s been present since the 1970s:the Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. To ...
Long baseline clock atom interferometryAtom interferometry and atomic clocks continue to make impressive gains in sensitivity and time precision. I will discuss the potential science reach and feasibility of using such precision atomic sensors for gravitational wave detection and searches for dark matter. Excitement for these applications has driven the growth of an emerging ...
Why the Rational Believe the IrrationalLong a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted, in part, by followers of the mysterious QAnon community, itself a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General $10 members live, $10/$5 online
Biodiversity Trivia Night with California Academy of SciencesCal Academy scientists and KQED Science reporter Laura Klivans team up to challenge you to trivia about local flora and fauna. Featuring short videos by Deep Look, a PBS/KQED video series that zooms way in to show us what we can't see with the naked eye.GuestsSarah Jacobs, Assistant Curator of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: In Person: $10.
Computers v. Crime with NOVAIn police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just?  NOVA explores these questions with ...
In the nearly two decades of research conducted since the first diatom full genome sequence was published, several key insights into the strategies diatom use to outcompete other phytoplankton taxa have been made. This research has furthered our knowledge on the function of the diatom urea cycle, and how this ...
In Pursuit of the Organic Archaeological Record: Micromorphology Meets Lipid AnalysisIn recent years, "bioarchaeology" has become a prominent term in archaeological research worldwide. Invisible genetic, protein and lipid residues are increasingly being recovered from artifacts and sediments and have become an integral part of the empirical archaeological record. Their identification in archaeological contexts from different time periods is allowing us ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Shedding light on symbiosis: lessons from a bioluminescent coral reef fishVirtually all organisms depend on symbiotic interactions with bacteria for their success. Most bacterial symbionts are acquired horizontally from the environment, including those in highly dynamic marine environments.Despite the diverse pool of bacteria in the environment,hosts typically associate with only a select subset of symbiont species.The mechanisms that promote host-symbiont ...
 Sometimes, bigger is better. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will collect 9 times more light than the largest currently existing telescope and, with adaptive optics, make images 9 times sharper. Overall, that’s 81 times better! The TMT International Observatory (with members from the US, Japan, China, India, & Canada), together ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 11/03/22
The Milky Way's Dynamic AtmosphereThe Galactic atmosphere is as essential to setting the global conditions in the Milky Way as our planet's atmosphere is for sustaining life on Earth. Dramatic, multiphase gas flows course through the disk-halo interface and into the more extended circumgalactic medium (CGM), redistributing the materials generated over billions of years ...
The search for extrasolar planets has yielded a bounty of results, with over 5,000 confirmed planets catalogued so far. Among those planets are a strange and as-yet-not-well-understood type of low density gas giant often referred to as 'cotton candy' planets or 'Super-Puffs'. While that's not a breakfast cereal coming to ...
In human-robot interaction or more generally multi-agent systems, we often have decentralized agents that need to perform a task together. In such settings, it is crucial to have the ability to anticipate the actions of other agents. Without this ability, the agents are often doomed to perform very poorly. Humans ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Poetic MachinesWith inspiration and ingenuity, even the most functional machines can be used to express creativity. Tonight, unlock the aesthetic potential of pre-digital machines. Explore a collection of analog exhibits that are more than the sum of their parts. Let artist PNosa translate your words into imaginative imagery using a sewing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Lil’ NightLife, big vibes. Join us for an evening devoted to all the little (but important) things.Tiny & Shiny Science Today8:00 PMCatch a live talk from Dr. Alison Gould to hear how bioluminescent bacteria team up with other animals to help them shine bright.Humble Abode East Garden6 - 10 PMBigger ...
For some environments, “here today, gone tomorrow†is the MO. From flooded flyways to the bottom of the sea, temporary ecosystems pop up (or sink down) all over the world, supplying numerous species with abundant, although momentary, habitats. We’re looking at the organisms that rely on these ephemeral ecosystems, and ...
Alexa Zytnick, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, will be giving a CLEAR PubScience talk about using microbes to recycle metals! Â
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
The Milky Way in X-rays: Searching for extreme objects in our own backyardAstronomers estimate that there are nearly 100 million black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way. So where are they? And what other extreme objects exist within our stellar metropolis? We typically see black holes when they're eating material from a partner star, and that infalling material heats up to ...
Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert and Long Now's Executive Director Alexander Rose will be in conversation for this special evening discussion of time, art and long-term thinking.Eggert's sign work uses sculpture to bring time to the foreground, embodying its passage through carefully chosen quotes. These words, rendered in neon and steel, ...
