Webinar: An Updated Look at Utility Wildfire Risk and MitigationAs wildfires become an increasing threat across the United States, it's crucial for electric utilities to create plans to mitigate the risk of their infrastructure sparking disaster. Join us for our upcoming webinar featuring insights from Stanford researchers and industry experts. We'll be sharing new findings from their expanded survey ...
What Earth’s Technosphere RevealsWhat Will Earth Look Like in 1000 Years? Will humanity collapse, thrive, or colonize the stars - and could alien civilizations detect us?Join senior planetary astronomer Dr. Franck Marchis for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, astrobiologist and lead author of a groundbreaking study exploring 10 possible futures for Earth’s ...
Where: Cost: Free
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love ThemPseudoscience has been with us for a very long time and has taken many forms throughout the years, from the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, wishful thinking to straight-up hucksterism. Humanity’s fascination with pseudoscience is incredibly persistent and even today attracts passionate supporters to all kinds of nonsensical ideas. ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Adventures in AIOne of the summer’s most illuminating and entertaining exhibitions opens at After Dark! Leap into the wild new world of artificial intelligence withAdventures in AI, featuring surprising exhibits, playful art, and interactive programs. Understand how AI really works and explore its real-world science and research. Whether you’re an AI expert ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
NightLifeWhen the lights dim, the museum comes alive at NightLife. With live DJs, hand-crafted drinks, glowing lights, and 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Plus, you can:Explore our two newest exhibits, Dino Days and Unseen Oceans: Roam among ...
Marilyn Latta will share information about living shorelines efforts in San Francisco Bay, including design and monitoring data from the San Rafael Living Shorelines Project, a mix of oyster reefs and eelgrass bed plantings in a multi-objective and experimental living shorelines design. Marilyn will share updates on how this and ...
2025 is 100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and 20 years after the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover court case, in which I participated while working at the National Center for Science Education. The Kitzmiller case included extensive expert testimony on the science of evolution, and the ...
Leap into the wild new world of artificial intelligence with Adventures in AI! Whether you’re an AI expert or a total newcomer, this brand-new exhibition will have something for you to dive into, plus additional weekend programs for all-day fun. Join us for a clever reversal of the Turing Test, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Family Nature Adventures: Bird Watching - Discover Local Feathered Friends!Take flight into the fascinating world of birds! Learn how to identify local birds by their unique appearances and calls. Gain tips and tricks for becoming a skilled birdwatcher. Bring your own binoculars or use our child-sized pairs as you embark on a forest stroll, spotting and observing birds in ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 General, $35 ages 3 - 8, $10 off members
Leap into the wild new world of artificial intelligence with Adventures in AI! Whether you’re an AI expert or a total newcomer, this brand-new exhibition will have something for you to dive into, plus additional weekend programs for all-day fun. Join us for a clever reversal of the Turing Test, ...
Engineering in Astronomy - A Career PathSpeaker: Cristian Rodriguez (UC Observatories)Bio: Cristian Rodriguez, a Mechanical Engineer at the University of California Observatories, has built a dynamic career designing astronomical instrumentation, including working on the SCALES instrument for the Keck Observatory and designing fire-detecting CubeSats. In his talk, “Engineering in Astronomy,” ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Tuesday, 06/17/25
Gaming the Museum: The Power of Open-Source Innovation in Cultural Spaces (Online)Museum educators, interaction designers, and game-studio partners from Switzerland and the United States share insights from developing 20 open-source game prototypes through Project AMI (Art + Museums Interacting). Built in swift 30-day sprints and refined through public play-tests, the examples show how gamified experiences transform visitors from passive observers into ...
Please join us for the official launch of the Cyber Resilience Corps’ Roadmap for Community Security. Community organizations - nonprofits, rural hospitals, schools, local utilities, municipalities, and small businesses - are vital to delivering essential services to the public, but they are often the least prepared to protect themselves from ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Tucson #108: Massive Binaries & Supermassive Black Holes - LivestreamTucson’s local flavor of Astronomy on Tap, Space Drafts, is excited to present its 108th edition! On tap this month, we have talks from two Steward Observatory professors: Dr. Jianwei Lyu will be delving into the mysteries and marvels of supermassive black holes and Dr. Mathieu Renzo will be exploring ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 06/18/25
Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls - LivestreamA round-table style discussion of Dr. Elaine Korzak’s new paper Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. D. Korzak will moderate a discussion between guests James Shires, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Managing Editor of Binding Hook; Andrew J. Grotto, research scholar ...
The deep sea, long imagined as a realm of eternal stillness and slow change, is telling a different story through new research - one of rapid transformation, ancient yet accelerating life strategies, and ecological revelations that challenge our fundamental understanding of life on Earth. The NorthEast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project ...
We share the Earth with millions of other species. But, our planet is experiencing a biodiversity crisis in which a significant portion of these species are in danger of extinction in coming decades. While the Earth has undergone mass extinctions in the past - such as when a meteor strike ...
Where: Cost: Free
Cleaner Stormwater, Cleaner Bay - LivestreamJosh Quigley, Policy Manager at Save The Bay, discusses an important source of pollution in the San Francisco Bay: stormwater. Discover how policy and nature-based solutions help keep trash, microplastics and other pollutants out of our Bay. Explore how you can help make a difference.Register at weblink
More intense computing applications, including various AI training and inference, the Internet of Things as well as higher resolution rendered content for VR and AR applications are driving demand for digital storage and memory. To satisfy this increasing demand for storing data, new and traditional storage and memory technologies are ...
JWST, the largest telescope in space, detects infrared (heat) radiation, providing information not available to the Hubble Space Telescope. It allows astronomers to study the birth of stars, newly formed dust in the gases ejected by dying stars, and the atmospheric composition of planetsorbiting other stars. Among JWST’s most surprising ...
