Reprogramming Cellular Function: Molecular Glues for transcription factorsMolecular glues are small molecules that exert their pharmacological effects by inducing new protein-protein interactions. Originally identified as the mechanism of natural product macrocycles such as rapamycin and FK506, the discovery of new molecular glues has experienced a resurgence of interest. A key driver of this interest has been the ...
Our solar system hosts ~300 moons whose diversity challenges our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Despite decades of research, many studies on the interior evolution and present-day conditions of Europa and Ganymede still assume that these moons formed hot with a metal-sulfide core, like Earth. In contrast, numerous formation ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Macroalgal past, present, and future: A place for developmental biologyBrown macroalgae have been present on our Pacific Northeast coast for at least 35 million years. The largest extant brown macroalgae form the canopy and sub-canopy of our incredible kelp forests, serving as foundational species for near-shore marine ecosystems. These organisms have an essential role in a thriving and sustainable ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
SETI LIVE: Why is Mars Red? - LivestreamNew Research Suggests Ferrihydrite is the Key In a recent study, Dr. Janice Bishop of the SETI Institute, along with postdoctoral researcher Adomas Valantinas from Brown University, propose that Mars' characteristic red hue is primarily due to ferrihydrite - a water-rich iron oxide mineral - rather than the previously assumed ...
In this talk, I will reexamine the evolution of robotics research at the University of Pennsylvania, covering the successes and struggles of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty between 1972 and 2000. In 1972, I came to Penn’s newly formed Department of Computer and Information Science from Stanford University's Artificial ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Science under Siege - LivestreamFrom pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever before. But our efforts to effectively address these existential crises are frequently hampered by a common threat: politically and ideologically motivated opposition to science.Join us for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents live stream with Michael Mann. He’ll discuss his collaboration ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Our Place in SpaceDesign your own spacecraft, learn about NASA’s lunar missions, and wrap your hands (and brain) around the scale of our Solar System! Join us for an evening of thrilling adventure in outer space, including huge views of the Martian terrain and an immersive eclipse exhibit. Grab some friends, sip a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Members free
NightLife: Academy DayJoin us for a festive night of science and community in celebration of the Academy’s birthday.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
The Future of Food and the Buzz of Science - CANCELEDThe Lawrence is abuzz with insect science! You’re invited for an evening of exploration of science both big and small! Witness a flaming firefly in Serenity, a striking fusion of art and engineering by Oakland’s own Flaming Lotus Girls. Meet and learn from expert scientists about insect biology and evolution. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25
Tech at NiteSan Jose’s most innovative night out returns on Thursday, April 3, with Tech at Nite, an adults-only (21+) evening at The Tech Interactive!This special after-hours event blends hands-on STEAM fun, interactive exhibits, and, well, nightlife! In the spirit of the season, you'll enjoy a unique line-up of local San Jose/Bay Area ...
Where: San JoseCost: $35
Friday, 04/04/25
Bair Island Walking TourJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a walking tour at the Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! You’ll be guided by POST ambassadors who will share the history of this beautiful protected space, information about the species that live there, and what you ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseyCome together as a family, visit early, and stay late!Swing into the weekend with music, food trucks, animals, and fun! On the first Friday of every month, from 5 pm until 8 pm, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Enjoying animal presentations, science activities, and dance to some of your ...
Where: San MateoCost: $22.95 General, $17.95 Senior, Child, Student
First Friday: Art X ScienceDiscover the incredible fusion of creativity and discovery at First Friday: ART X SCIENCE! Bring your poetry & songs for a space & science-inspired open mic, craft cosmic zines using imagery from real space telescopes, explore a pop-up gallery of astronomical art, and take a glimpse behind the curtain with ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, $5 Kids & Seniors
Saturday, 04/05/25
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase - LivestreamDoug Tallamy will kick off this event by describing what you can do in your own garden to restore nature. Kathy Kramer will provide a retrospective on the Tour’s first 20 years. In a series of garden visits passionate garden owners and the talented designers of the Bay Area’s most ...
Where: Cost: Donations encouraged
Native bee workshopDid you know that there are over 1,600 species of bees native to California?Join instructor Kandis Gilmore to learn about the varied life cycles, ecological roles, and basic taxonomic groups of bees. We’ll study indoors and explore outdoors at the Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen in this hands-on workshop and ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $23.18
TechFestSave the date for CHM’s all-day TechFest, a family-friendly celebration blending the wonders of science fiction and real-world tech. Experience hands-on activities, interactive demos, the Museum’s latest exhibits, and more.
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free with admission
First Saturday: Free Tour of the Santa Cruz ArboretumAround the World in 60-90 Minutes!On the first Saturday of each month, the Arboretum offers a docent or staff-led tour of the Arboretum.Sometimes you will see New Zealand, South Africa, California, and Australia. Sometimes you might see combinations of several gardens or the developing World Conifer Collection or Rare Fruit ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission, and for members
Sunnyvale’s Earth Day Festival: Empowering Our Community Sunnyvale's Earth Day Festival features family-friendly and sustainability-focused activities. Bike to the event and explore a variety of environmental activities hands-free after checking your bike at our free valet.Local non-profit organizations will be tabling along West Olive Ave. to share their expertise on environmental protection. Visit the community booths to ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
City Public Star PartyCome join the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers for free public stargazing of the Moon, planets, globular clusters and more!The event will take place in Tunnel Tops National Park, parking is located adjacent to Picnic Place (210 Lincoln Blvd for GPS) with the telescopes setup in the East Meadow.Dress warmly as conditions ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
NASA FOXSI5 sounding rocket experimentIn this talk, Milo Buitrago-Casas (UC Berkeley) will delve into the groundbreaking FOXSI mission, which represents a new era in solar flare observations. FOXSI utilizes high-energy X-ray imaging to capture the dynamic behavior of solar flares, providing unprecedented insights into the physics driving these powerful eruptions. The discussion will cover ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 04/06/25
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase - LivestreamAgenda:10:00-10:15 Welcome, Kathy Kramer, Tour Coordinator10:15-10:50 “From ecological desert to wildlife habitat” by Stefanie Pruegel Visit Stefanie’s San Leandro garden and fully electrified home on Saturday, May 3, 202410:50-11:30 “Harden your home for fire safety” by Chief Colin Arnold, Berkeley Fire Department11:30-12:00 “Fire-resistant native plants” by Jennifer Dirking12:00-12:30 “Lawn Conversion ...
Where: Cost: Donations encouraged
Earth Month Celebration at the RefugeLet's kick off Earth Month with a celebration at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! Join us any time during the event.The event will be an open house, with time to explore, learn more about our endangered species, join a guided tour, participate in some arts & ...
Where: AlvisoCost: 0
Native Plant Walk at Pearson Arastradero PreserveJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust, Grassroots Ecology, and Naturalist Francis Mendoza for this exciting and informative California native plant walk at Pearson-Arastradero Preserve!It’s wildflower season! Get ready for a 2.6-mile hike with an elevation gain of 272 feet as you explore the beauty of California’s native plant communities. Along the ...
It’s there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it’s time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we’ll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly ...
Geothermal wells play a key role in the development, understanding and utilization of geothermal resources. Understanding the thermodynamic processes that occur within geothermal wells assists with their design, the interpretation of downhole measurements, and the optimization of reservoir management. However, the behavior of geothermal wells can be difficult or impossible ...
Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their heterostructures offer tunable electrical and optical properties, primarily modifiable through electrostatic gating and twisting. While electrostatic gating is a well-established method for manipulating 2DM, achieving real-time control over interfacial properties remains a frontier in exploring 2DM physics and advanced quantum device technology. Current methods, often ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Cryogenic electron imaging of macromolecules and subcellular components related to human healthMy talk will cover recent advances in the application of near atomic-resolution single-particle cryoEM for the structural and functional analysis of macromolecules, revealing novel information that could not be predicted by AlphaFold. Additionally, I will discuss the potential power of cryovEM and cryoET in studying cells and tissues, with implications ...
Commissioner Judy Chang will discuss the role of Federal regulation in the rapidly changing American energy landscape. She will focus on trends, lessons learned, and regional variations across the electricity and gas sectors, and how regulators work to ensure reliable and affordable energy despite increasingly uncertain future conditions.Speaker: Judy Chang, ...
Physical AIIn today’s robot revolution, a record 3.1 million robots are now working in factories, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways - improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our ...
The advent of generative artificial intelligence and associated innovation in the broader AI domain has the potential to create transformative opportunities globally, automating routine tasks and shortening the timeline to understand and potentially solve complex problems while permitting humans to focus on challenges that require human creativity and problem-solving. There ...
The Glen Torridon region within Gale crater, Mars forms an important area along the Curiosity rover traverse because of the abundance of clays, which likely formed through bedrock-water interactions. The region forms a valley adjacent to a prominent ridge that carries a strong hematite spectral signature. Until Curiosity examined the ...
In the past decade, neutrino astronomy went from dream to reality with the IceCube collaboration producing observations of the very first neutrino sources in the sky. Last year, the diffuse emission of the Galactic Plane was observed in high-energy neutrinos, making it the first non-electromagnetic view of our own galaxy. ...
Interfacial water exhibits rich and complex behavior, playing a critical role in chemistry, biology, geology, and engineering. Despite its importance, fundamental properties of water at hydrophobic interfaces - such as orientational ordering, hydronium and hydroxide concentrations, improper hydrogen bonding, and the presence of strong electric fields - remain highly debated. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Emergence of novel particles in quantum magnetsIn condensed matter systems, novel particles may emerge at low temperatures and carry quantum numbers different from those of elementary particles. A well established example is the fractionally charged particles in the fractional quantum Hall state. It has long been proposed that similar fractionalized particles may emerge in certain quantum ...
Join us for a talk with Stanford Associate Professor James Zou, who will discuss the research that put him on the cover of Nature Medicine and how AI is used for scientific discovery and patient diagnosis.Professor Zou is an associate professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science ...
A principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement, John Muir Laws (aka Jack) is an award-winning naturalist, artist, author, scientist, and educator who has dedicated nearly four decades of his life to connecting people to nature through art and science. The co-founder of Wild Wonder Foundation, Jack ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Wednesday, 04/09/25
Is the pseudogap in YBCO a pairing gap? Evidence from nonlinear pumping experimentThe group of Cavalleri has reported “superconducting-like” response up to the pseudogap scale when YBCO is subject to intense optical pump. A recent experiment reported evidence for flux exclusion. I will discuss an alternative explanation which does not require the creation of superconductivity by pumping. On the other hand, our ...
An approach to scalable surface-drifting buoys is needed to enable the high spatial and temporal resolution of oceanographic data that the science and meteorological communities are asking for. With the number of active buoys predicted to increase by a factor of 100 or more, the impact on the environment becomes ...
Where: Cost: Free
Confronting a Sea of Change: Overcoming Uncertainty and Inequality in Global FisheriesUCSC's Fisheries Collaborative Program and the Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay Area Subunit of the American Fisheries Society invite you to the fifth annual, Diverse Voices in Fisheries Science Seminar. This will be a five-part series. We are excited to present Elena Finkbeiner, Conservation International & UC Santa Cruz CSP
In an era when information is treated as a form of power and self-knowledge an unqualified good, the value of what remains unknown is often overlooked. From fitness trackers to social media, contemporary technologies encourage individuals to quantify, reveal, and optimize their lives - yet this relentless pursuit of knowledge ...
Butterfly Walk in the GardenJoin our butterfly docent specialist Sally Levinson and Andy Liu for a guided walk through the Garden in search of butterflies, as you learn about their plant relationships and amazing life cycle. Bring binoculars if you have them.Registered children welcome. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Groups larger than 6 ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $18 General, $14 Members
Sustainably Powering AI: The latest Stanford research - LivestreamAI offers enormous potential for a sustainable future, leveraging the vast amount of data in the energy system to optimize everything from battery management to changing energy markets to grid operation and planning. But this intellectual power comes at the cost of electrical power, and lots of it. The rapid ...
Southern California Bight coastal waters are dynamic and strongly influenced by a changing climate. An increased respiration quotient has been found during high temperature and low nitrogen conditions. These observations are specific to open ocean conditions, and their applicability to coastal environments is uncertain. To disentangle the controlling factors in ...
Research funded by the federal government has been crucial in many of the defining technologies of our time: the internet, A.I., CRISPR, Ozempic, and the mRNA vaccines that saved untold lives during the COVID pandemic. Between 2010 and 2019, more than 350 drugs were approved in the United States, and ...
Where: LafayetteCost: $10
Eagle's Nest Mine53 minute uninterupted video on Eagle's Nest Mine, a specimen gold mine located in Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California. It was recorded and produced by Mineral Nation and presented by Ian Merkle at the 2024 PNWFM Symposium (Pacific Northwest Friends of Mineralogy.) Ian is the geologist working for Danny ...
Over 6000 planets have now been found around other stars, but we only have information about what their atmospheres are like for a few dozen. NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which features a 20-foot mirror in space, is currently being used to understand atmospheres. We can look for ...
