Mars is an exciting frontier, with opportunities to discover what might exist within its sedimentary layers and surface landforms. Comparative studies of red rocks on Earth have provided important clues for interpreting the geology on Mars. Small terrestrial concretions (cemented mineral masses) compared with “blueberries” found on the red planet, ...
Marsh Hike at Coyote PointStep into the baylands and explore the vibrant marsh ecosystem right outside our doors. Join CuriOdyssey educators for a guided hike through Coyote Point’s wetlands, where we’ll look for native plants, local wildlife, and signs of seasonal change.We will gather at CuriOdyssey before heading out to the marsh together. Participants ...
Despite significant progress on quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes, building qLDPC processors that are high-rate, high-throughput, hardware-friendly, and fast-to-decode remains a challenge. We introduce mitten codes, a family of qLDPC processor codes of encoding rate 20% and check weight 9, based on non-abelian groups. Their non-abelian structure evades distance bounds ...
Over the last 10+ years there has emerged some evidence that when a reaction vessel is reduced to the micron-sized dimensions (e.g. droplets), photochemical and bimolecular reactions speed up by many orders of magnitude. The mechanism(s) for rate acceleration in droplets remains unclear but has potential implications for understanding the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory FloorRobots and machines operating in the real world still have to be programmed from scratch for every task, or trained on massive volumes of video and simulation data, only to fail the moment reality shifts.Inait, founded by neuroscientist Prof. Henry Markram, takes a fundamentally different approach. Its fast-learning AI gives ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Who's Going Rogue: AI Agents, Safety & AccountabilityAI agents are taking actions developers did not anticipate. But humans set the goals, tools, permissions, and environments they operate in.KALW welcomes NPR's emerging technologies reporter, NeEddra James, for Who’s Going Rogue? a community conversation that brings together researchers working on AI agents, safety, and accountability. Together, they'll unpack ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 - $20 Donation Suggested
Just for fun (and for bragging rights), how many science facts lie within your grasp, and within the grasp of a few friends? That beautiful word science originates from the Latin word scientia, meaning “knowledge,” so it covers a lot of ground! This particular bit of information - involving the etymology of ...
