First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseySwing into the weekend with science, animals, music, food trucks, and fun! On the first Friday of every month, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Dance to some of your favorite hits, while enjoying animal presentations and science activities. Activities and programs are different each time, so make it a ...
Where: San MateoCost:
Book Talk: California Amphibians & How to Find ThemJoin Dr. Emily Taylor as she takes us through the amazing world of California’s amphibians! Dr. Taylor will share stories from her new book and have a book signing as well as other merchandise for sale after the talk. If you love frogs, salamanders, newts, and tadpoles, this talk is ...
Are we alone? Or is there other life out there in the universe beyond Earth? If there is other life, is it complex life, capable of using language and creating technology like us? Dr. Sofia Sheikh seeks to answer this question by using facilities like the Allen Telescope Array to ...
Naturalist Walk at Bouverie PreserveJoin director of education, Cate Clune and bilingual environmental education specialist, Andrea Salazar, on a naturalist walk at Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen. Take in the wonders of the outdoors by slowing down and using observational skills to learn about the environment around you.Prepare to use all your senses, bring ...
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. Good for ages 6 and up; all children must be accompanied by an adult.Please click the link to register via EventBrite. Space is limited.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Sunday, 02/08/26
Marine Science Sunday: Marine Mammal BabiesJoin us to learn more about the elephant seals and gray whales being born right now along the coast! We will explore the incredible cuteness of marine mammal babies and the adaptations of marine mammal moms to care for their young. We will also share the best places to see ...
Lexie is an entomology PhD candidate interested in the impact of microbes on bee health. She received a BS in Biology (focus evolution, ecology, and behavior) and a BSA in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate, she investigated the spatial distribution of bacteria within the ...
The ground state of real geometrically frustrated magnets is a long-standing puzzle. We recently showed that the spin glass state, ubiquitous in 3D Heisenberg systems, is due to defect-related quasispins and that defect-free systems develop a previously unrecognized energy scale, T*, significantly below the mean field energy. The entropy loss ...
Expansion of helium gas through a cold nozzle generates a beam of very cold superfluid nanodroplets. If this beam passes through dilute atomic or molecular vapor, one or more “dopants” can become embedded in each droplet and are promptly cooled to their lowest vibrational and low rotational states. Very cold ...
Will a collaboration of humans & technology be successful in the long term? Will it become the savior of health care or just another pain?Artificial intelligence can now match and sometimes surpass physicians in areas such as diagnosis to empathy. What does that mean for doctors, patients, and the future ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 online
'Hunting Yellow Pigs' screeningA summer program for high schoolers that has had perhaps the greatest impact on American mathematics and is a paragon of questing knowledge.Special HCSSiM Documentary: Hunting Yellow PigsCome join old and new friends for a special in-person screening of a documentary about the summer math program for high school students ...
The primary challenge for synthetic chemists is supporting the efficient exploration of chemical space to find the best molecules for understanding or solving problems. In the past decade, cross-electrophile coupling, the union of two different electrophiles through transition-metal catalysis under reducing conditions, has become an increasingly used tool in these ...
There is a rapidly growing demand for reliable, low-cost trace gas sensors, particularly for hydrogen, in energy and critical infrastructure applications. These systems require ppb-to-ppm sensitivity, high intrinsic selectivity, and ultra-low power operation??"requirements that are not simultaneously met by today’s commercial gas-sensing technologies due to fundamental limitations in materials, device ...
Quantum computing promises to solve classically intractable problems, but building useful systems requires a fault-tolerant logical architecture for protecting and processing quantum information. After decades of progress, the field has largely converged on the surface-code architecture, which nevertheless appears fundamentally difficult to scale, with practical applications likely requiring millions of ...
Earth’s oceans are warming. Such large-scale aspects of climate change are disrupting important ecological balances, including the delicate service sea urchins perform in California’s kelp forest ecosystem. The implications are broad and alarming (and addressable): a warming planet may cause collapse in wild populations of vital marine life.Speaker: Daniel Okamoto, ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Wednesday, 02/11/26
Social by nature: from animal minds to inclusive Science communities - LivestreamJoin us on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science for an inspiring inaugural lecture by Professor Claudia Wascher, Social by Nature, exploring what it means to be social, both in the animal kingdom and in the scientific community.Drawing on her comparative research on avian cognition, Professor Wascher ...
The vertical export of biological material out of the surface ocean is a key component of biogeochemical cycles and food supply to the deep ocean and benthos. I will present companion studies from the highly-productive Chukchi shelf of the Arctic Ocean, in which we connect traditional sediment trap measurements that ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Introducing the Agentic AI Risk Management Profile - LivestreamOne of the most important recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) has been the emergence of agentic AI, or AI agents, systems that can act autonomously to plan and carry out tasks. While these systems present many of the same risks as other advanced AI systems, their ability to operate ...
Food consumers have long been demanding a healthier and more ecologically sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion. In this talk, Minkoff-Zern will draw on her co-authored new book, Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food System , which chronicles labor across the food chain??"from ...
In the month of February, The intersections of Climate Change lecture series will host a panel discussion with Dr. Shehnaz Hussain and Fire Captain Jamie Gabriel. They will discuss ongoing research in cancer being the leading cause of death among California firefighters and why preventative interventions remain elusive.
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Washington's White Birds of Winter: Snow Geese & Swans - LivestreamWell-known wildlife biologist Martha Jordan will present a program regarding the changing landscape that our swans and snow geese now face in migration and on their wintering grounds. You will learn about their life history, biology, and what influences their distribution across our state and the flyway, with a focus ...
The first trillionths of a second after the Big Bang are amongst the most mysterious periods in the Universe’s history, yet the physics governing this era remains largely unknown. Our current best model for describing the cosmic expansion during this tiny fraction of a second is “inflation” - a brief, ...
Invest in Cures Rare Disease ForumJoin LaunchBio to explore the transformative potential of impact investing in addressing rare disease challenges. This annual forum highlights the promise of venture philanthropy and innovative collaborations, offering hope for the commercialization of therapies that could revolutionize the treatment of rare diseases.Learn from venture leaders, advocates, researchers, and entrepreneurs as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 Early Bird (Jan 12), $55 After
Science on Tap: Great White SharksTake a deep dive into great white sharks with Dr. Barbara Block and her team Monterey Bay White Sharks out of Hopkins University! Dr. Block has worked with filmmakers to create an incredible new short documentary that will be shown as well as discussions and insights with audience Q&A to ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $25 General, $10 Members, Students free with ID
After Dark: SexplorationsSlip into something comfortable and dive into all the ways that nature gets it on.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
NightLife: Mix & MingleMeet-cute meets science. It’s a Valentine’s vibe for every relationship status. Singles, couples, friends, and curious cuties welcome.
Wilson’s Phalaropes and Red-necked Phalaropes are exceptionally unique shorebirds that specialize in hypersaline habitats. Nathan will discuss the challenges facing phalaropes within the San Francisco Bay and across their intercontinental migration. He will discuss monitoring data within the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, how saline lakes like California’s Mono Lake ...
Evolution Gone Wrong describes why the human body is uniquely prone to aches and pains. From poorly fitting teeth to blurry vision, torn menisci to difficult births, the history of our imperfections is rooted in our past. To understand our anatomy, we take a tour around the animal kingdom from ...
