Science at Cal - Music and the BrainMusic is everywhere. At a party, on the street, in our bodies - and in our minds. In fact, music is a powerful tool for understanding the brain. What happens when a song gets stuck in your head? Why does certain music make us move? Join us in the ...
Much of what we think we know about space comes from film and television, but Hollywood’s job is to entertain more than to educate. In this presentation, Prof. Thomas Targett of Sonoma State university will sort fact from fiction, taking a tour through the worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, ...
Dr. Claire Poppett is a researcher in astrophysics at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory who specializes in Astronomical Instrumentation. She is particularly motivated to research and develop new technical solutions that are necessary to build the next generation of astronomical instruments in order to answer the big questions about ...
