Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area.The ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
Feed the Farm AnimalsGet ready for an unforgettable animal adventure! Join our dedicated animal care team and dive into the excitement of feeding our delightful farm friends: goats, chickens, rabbits, sheep, and adorable pigs! You'll gain hands-on experience and discover fascinating insights into each animal's unique personality and needs. This interactive experience is ...
Where: San JoseCost: $16 SJ Residents, $20 Non-Residents
Are you curious about bats? Join the Environmental Volunteers in our Community Program, All About Bats to learn about different types of bats, how they hunt, and what they eat! EV docents will guide you and your family through fun activities with real bat specimens and explore some of the ...
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you ...
It’s tarantula season!Join Youth Science Institute for a special late-afternoon hike through Alum Rock Park in search of one of California’s largest and most misunderstood spiders - the tarantula!For much of the year, tarantulas live surprisingly secretive lives and can be difficult to spot. But each fall, mature male tarantulas ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Starry Nights Star PartyJoin the San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) and Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA) for an unforgettable night of exploring the night sky. Our knowledgeable docents, members of SJAA, will be your guides to providing valuable insights into the wonders of our universe. The viewing site features darker skies ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free (registration required at weblink)
Sunday, 11/08/26
Family Nature Adventures: Fungi - RESCHEDULEDThis Months Theme: Fungus Among Us - Exploring the Secret Life of Mushrooms!Unlock the mysterious world of fungi that thrives in the redwood forest!Interactive Workshop: Learn about the fascinating life cycle of mushrooms, their role in the ecosystem, and how to identify various species.Guided Nature Walk: Venture into the forest ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adult, $35 Age 3 - 8, Members $15 discount
A current project in my laboratory is investigating the mechanism and regulation of mitotic ER reorganization during cell division. It is unclear what factors are involved in reorganization of the ER and if these dramatic changes are cell cycle regulated? We will examine mitotic ER reorganization in the rapid divisions ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Superconductivity in layered nickelatesUnconventional superconductivity in proximity to various strongly correlated phases has been a recurring theme in materials as diverse as heavy fermion compounds, cuprates, pnictides, and twisted bilayer graphene. Here we will discuss a growing family of layered nickelate superconductors. The initial discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates was motivated by ...
Join us for this special edition of the What Physicists Do series, where we will hear from Sonoma State physicists and astronomers. In these talks, we will hear about their individual journeys through physics and astronomy. Additionally, they will teach us about some of the exciting phenomena in their subfields ...
Learning without a brain - how a single cell processes informationCells show a range of complex behaviors which might normally associated with cognition, including basic forms of learning such as habituation. The giant single-celled ciliate Stentor coeruleus is a pond-dwelling organism that attaches to substrates like pond plants and filter feeds by means of a ring of cilia at one ...
Rocks may seem ordinary and ubiquitous, but they are the foundation of the geomaterials that underpin modern society??"from cement in our built environment to the critical minerals in our smartphones and energy technologies. As the energy transition accelerates and demand for physical infrastructure grows, demand for materials is increasing rapidly. ...
Polyolefins are ubiquitous. They are lightweight, strong, and stable. These features render them useful in countless applications. Unfortunately, these attributes also contribute to the accumulation of persistent plastic waste in the environment. While polyolefins can be mechanically recycled, often this results in an inferior product and is in part the ...
Join us for an out-of-this-world virtual conversation with New York Times bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith as they dive into their book, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Earth is not well. The promise of starting life ...
Biosecurity in an Age of AI: Frontier Safety, Anticipatory Governance, and Defensive InnovationThis talk will discuss recent advancements in AI for biology, and relevant security and oversight considerations. It will also discuss how policy can be used to incentivize and shape technology development for defensive purposes, clarifying how the colloquial "defensive acceleration" or d/acc concept in AI circles relates to formal offense-defense ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Biosecurity in an Age of AI: Frontier Safety, Anticipatory Governance, and Defensive InnovationThis talk will discuss recent advancements in AI for biology, and relevant security and oversight considerations. It will also discuss how policy can be used to incentivize and shape technology development for defensive purposes, clarifying how the colloquial "defensive acceleration" or d/acc concept in AI circles relates to formal offense-defense ...
Entangled Intelligences: A Gathering on Science Futures Entangled Intelligences explores how the presence of diverse, non-human constituencies - from the biological to the synthetic - invites us to expand our thinking on the interrelationships among species and the resulting impacts on our understanding of science futures. By looking at intelligence as an emergent property shared across systems, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: TBA
The Long Now: Entangled IntelligencesJoin us for an unforgettable experience exploring Entangled Intelligences. This special event brings together an extraordinary lineup of speakers and performers exploring the frontiers of interspecies intelligence.How will our rapidly deepening interactions with non-human constituencies - from the biological to the synthetic - change how we understand what intelligence is?On ...
The Moon is a highly valued destination for human space exploration because it is close and it contains a wide array of lunar and Solar System science targets, which include resources that could be used to sustain humans on the lunar surface. These resources have the potential to enable sustainable ...
In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare, a poison he thought might save his life. Richard Gill had learned that local tribes used curare-laced blow darts to kill animals, but it was also potentially ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: Unplug and PlayYour monthly invitation to hang out and try something new - play science trivia, find your community, and connect deeply.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
NightLife: Pajammy JamThe mother of house parties…in a museum. Get ready for games, creatures, and late-night fun
Where: San FranciscoCost: $26 General
San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental HistoryThe San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most ecologically diverse - and most transformed - regions on Earth. In his sweeping and beautifully detailed book, San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History, David D. Schmidt traces how natural forces and human choices have shaped the landscape over thousands of yearsGrounded ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
SRI at 80: Inventing the FutureSRI has spent 80 years developing the technology that fuels the world we live in today: the internet, robotics, weather satellites, early human-machine AI, medicine, diagnostics and treatments, education programs, mapping, personal computing, and more. Celebrate with us and hear from some of the people who continue to deliver the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Acorn Woodpeckers: Cooperation, Conflict, and Family Drama - LivestreamAcorn Woodpeckers, best known for their unique habit of storing acorns by the thousands in special structures known as “granaries”, are cooperative breeders that exhibit one of the most complex social systems of any bird. Based on a long-term study of this species at Hastings Natural History Reservation in Monterey ...
Describing New Mexico as weird is at once both vaguely insulting and self-evidently true. The Land of Enchantment has long drawn artists, dreamers, scientists, pioneers, cranks, cultists, writers, outlaws, and others. All states are strange in their own ways, but New Mexico embraces its weirdness. Investigator Benjamin Radford will highlight ...
