Stanford's Genetics department leads hands-on activities every day of the festival. Try your hand at DNA spooling from animal cells and look at your own DNA from cheek cells under a microscope. Figure out what 1000 letters of your DNA look like. Solve a mystery by looking at "DNA" patterns ...
Dr. Brian Cole of Stanford University and U.C. Bodega Marine Lab presents a talk entitled "Coastal Marine Ecotoxicology: Assessing Contaminant Effects from the Cell to the Organism" as part of the Sonoma State University's Biology Colloquium.
Nearly a century has passed since the discovery of injectable insulin in the 1920s turned the tide on diabetes, helping to save countless lives. Today, even as research into the disease proceeds apace, the diabetes epidemic continues to grow. In California alone, an estimated 4 million people (one out of ...
Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for cool, food-related investigations.This program is jointly supported by Science@Cal, Community Resources for Science, and the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Electric Cars, Residential Energy Monitoring Systems & Smart MetersChris Hunt, principal at PowerDown, will present the current state of inexpensive, residential home energy monitoring systems. Many of these systems have browser-based front-ends that allow users to monitor their usage over the web. Ron Freund, director of Plug In America, will discuss range, utility and reliability of electric vehicles, focusing ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $15 General, day of, $10 Members advance
Cancer claims the lives of more than a half million Americans each year. The lengthy battle against cancer has been one of human ingenuity, dramatic technologic advancement, and tireless commitment, but also of misperception, endless complexity, and frustration. Leading cancer researchers discuss the discoveries, and their collective hope for the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members & Seniors
Modern science offers us a startling and highly detailed account of Cosmology-the origin of everything. This same issue-and its significance-have occupied religious thinkers for thousands of years. Their insights are very different from those of science, but can also be beautifully complementary. In this evening's unique Wonder Dialogue, an astrophysicist, ...
Join Michael Nielsen for a lecture and book signing for his latest book, Reinventing Discovery. He'll reveal dramatic changes in science driven by powerful tools that are greatly accelerating scientific progress, and show how scientists are spontaneously collaborating online to tackle unsolved problems and make astonishing discoveries.
More than a billion people around the world are engaged in a massive and unprecedented experiment in how social media technologies are changing society, commerce, politics, health, innovation, love, work, the arts and more. But what is this new tech literally doing to our brains? How is it impacting who ...
An evening of stories about ideas, experimentation and when it all goes wrong with New York Times bestselling author, Gail Carriger, MythBusters host Adam Savagem Physicist and inventor, Nicholas Sheridon, New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler, and Machine artisan Kal Spelletich.RSVP
Find out what happens when artists spend nine months in a science lab. This exhibition features eight works developed during the Swiss artists-in-labs residency, which places artists in scientific settings.
