Bay Area students will be joining us for an international science pantomime. Via a live-link to the Genoa Science Festival, our students will connect with students in Italy. The students will pantomime science concepts to each other through live-link technology. While the students in Italy do the pantomiming, our Bay ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with admission
Close-in Planets: From Hot Jupiters to Super Moons The closest-in planets, with periods as short as 10 hours, are now a well-established population, thanks to Doppler and transit surveys. They present a number of challenges: how did they form and achieve their tight orbits, and how do they evolve and survive in the face of intense irradiation from ...
The mounting need to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare due to economic pressures and changing demographics requires significant transformations in healthcare delivery. This new healthcare will be evidence-based, patient-centered and proactive (preventive) and is likely to depend, in part, on technological innovations that in turn require solutions to ...
Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Curious about solar beads and solar cookers? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for some cool, food-related investigations at East Bay farmers' markets during the Bay Area Science Festival.
EteRNA RNA nanoengineering through crowd scienceInternet-scale citizen science projects have successfully solved complex image analysis and molecular modeling challenges. However, these approaches have thus far been limited to computational problems with little or no experimental input. No mechanism has enabled citizen scientists to solve empirical problems requiring continuous wet-lab feedback. We present EteRNA, a 37,000-player ...
Editor's Note: This talk has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy and will be rescheduled.I discuss using Google search data to analyze politics. In particular, I suggest using Google search data on taboo subjects, where polls might give misleading information. I compare area-level Google searches for racial animus to area-level ...
