Predatory Plant: Lure of the Cobra Lily
The cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher...
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KQED Science Video Podcast
KQED Science explores science and environment news, trends and events from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond with its award-winning features and reporting on television, radio and the We...
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20 of 274 episodesScience of Beer: Tapping the Power of Brewer's Yeast
Whether it’s a lager or ale, sour or bitter, dark or light, most beer has one thing in common: yeast. KQED Science visits a commercial yeast...
200 Geeks, 24 Hours: Science Hack Day in San Francisco
What happens when you fill up a giant space with over 200 eager science fans from around the Bay Area for a weekend? You get Science Hack Da...
Fighting Food Waste
Forty percent of the food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten. From "farm to fork", there are many reasons for food waste, including consumer...
ZomBees: Flight of the Living Dead
Something strange and unsettling is happening to Bay Area honeybees. Entomologists at San Francisco State University have identified the cul...
Stanford Students Debut Solar-Powered Prefab Home
Stanford University students set out to revolutionize home design by entering a solar powered prefab house into the Department of Energy's b...
Chasing Pumas: Science on the SPOT
Join a research team from University of California, Santa Cruz as they track, tranquilize and collar a wild puma. The special GPS collars co...
Next Meal: Engineering Food
More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows...
The Glowing Millipedes of Alcatraz: Science on the SPOT
More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows...
Preserving the Forest of the Sea: Science on the SPOT
The University Herbarium at the University of California - Berkeley boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of seaweed in the Unite...
Shadows and Spiders-- A Secret Cave in California: Science on the SPOT
The rural foothills along the Santa Cruz County Coast hold an ancient secret. Deep below the redwoods, White Moon Cave extends for nearly a...
Why I Do Science: Stephen Palumbi
In this edition of "Why I Do Science", we hear from Stephen Palumbi, a world-renowned marine biologist and director of the Hopkins Marine St...
Some Bugs Like it Hot: Climate Change and Agricultural Pests
Scientists and farmers are starting to notice that, as California's winters warm up, the state is becoming more hospitable to destructive ag...
Your Videos on QUEST: Steve Fyffe
Motion-activated cameras at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve provide scientists a window into the secret lives of the...
Black Holes: Objects of Attraction
Black holes have been the stuff of science fiction since their discovery in the late sixties. But now a new, nimble NASA telescope is using...
Field Notes: Dan Costa in Antarctica
QUEST Producer Sheraz Sadiq interviews Bay Area filmmaker and musician Jesse Hiatt about the experience of filming in one of the world's mos...
What's Next for Nuclear?
Can nuclear power be produced safely and affordably? A scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is working to do just that.
Your Photos on QUEST: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observation platform which...
X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3-D
At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists are using a cutting-edge microscope, the first of its kind in the world, to image w...
Up all Night with SOFIA, NASA's Flying Observatory: Science on the SPOT
SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observation platform which...