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The cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher...

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...

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...

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...

Something strange and unsettling is happening to Bay Area honeybees. Entomologists at San Francisco State University have identified the cul...

Stanford University students set out to revolutionize home design by entering a solar powered prefab house into the Department of Energy's b...

Join a research team from University of California, Santa Cruz as they track, tranquilize and collar a wild puma. The special GPS collars co...

More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows...

More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows...

The University Herbarium at the University of California - Berkeley boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of seaweed in the Unite...

The rural foothills along the Santa Cruz County Coast hold an ancient secret. Deep below the redwoods, White Moon Cave extends for nearly a...

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...

Scientists and farmers are starting to notice that, as California's winters warm up, the state is becoming more hospitable to destructive ag...

Motion-activated cameras at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve provide scientists a window into the secret lives of the...

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...

QUEST Producer Sheraz Sadiq interviews Bay Area filmmaker and musician Jesse Hiatt about the experience of filming in one of the world's mos...

Can nuclear power be produced safely and affordably? A scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is working to do just that.

SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observation platform which...

At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists are using a cutting-edge microscope, the first of its kind in the world, to image w...

SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observation platform which...

Kip Evans is a natural history documentary filmmaker and photographer from Pacific Grove, California. This is an excerpt of his short film,...

Their basic design hasn’t changed much, but scientists still don’t fully understand the forces that allow humans to balance atop a bicycle....

Off California's coastline, thousands of feet below the deep blue ocean where the sun's rays don't reach, teems a diverse community of deep...

In this "Field Notes" segment, Amy Gotliffe, director of conservation at the Oakland Zoo, shares her photographs and stories from Uganda, wh...

This half-hour program looks at heart disease – the number one killer in the United States – from the point of view of a teenager trying to...

By rushing heart attack victims to the operating table and opening their blocked arteries while their heart attacks are underway, doctors ar...

One in six kids in the United States is obese, a condition that doubles their risk of heart disease. Lorena Ramos, 14, a patient at the Heal...

Photographer Simon Christen shares his passion for observing the environment through the process of time-lapse photography. By training his...

"Insects do not taste like chicken," said Daniella Martin, a charismatic advocate of eating low - make that really low - on the food chain....

For decades amateur rocket builders, or "rocketeers," have been trying to reach space. Now with advances in materials and technology, they'r...

Scientists in San Francisco have coaxed mouse hearts to repair themselves from within. The breakthrough could lead to treatments for the 5 m...

Monarch Butterflies migrate from all over the western United States to overwinter along the California coast. Conservation Biologist Stu Wei...

Kandis Elliot is on the Botany Department staff at the University of Wisconsin, but she's not a scientist or professor. Elliot is an artist...

In 2006, the world learned that honeybees in America and Canada were dying in large numbers, and hives were becoming defunct. Five years lat...

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center investigates animal die-offs and threats to endangered species through on-site investigation and ne...

If you can't abide Brussels sprouts and broccoli, your genes may be to blame. Geneticist Danielle Reed of the Monell Chemical Senses Center...

An exoskeleton suit may seem like science fiction, turning ordinary humans into super heroes, but wearable robots are moving forward into re...

Biomedical researchers are investigating ways to 'grow' new skin in hopes that healing burns can be quicker, safer and more complete.

QUEST travels to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to meet Dr. Spurlock, an anatomist and forensic reconstruction artist who uses clay...

Mike Forsberg, a nationally renowned photographer, conservationist, and author from Nebraska, spent four years traveling 100,000 miles acros...

For over one hundred and fifty years, scientists have captured images of celestial objects scattered across the night sky. The Pisgah Astron...

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is hard at work on a $4.6 billion, decade-long construction project to overhaul the Hetch Hetc...

Within and along the waters of Lake Erie (one of the five Great Lakes), there is a daily struggle for survival between natives and unwelcome...

The invasive Asian carp has wreaked havoc in the Mississippi River system. The voracious plankton eaters have out-competed native fish and h...

The art and science of salt glaze pottery requires skills and techniques acquired over generations of trial and error. Ben Owen III combines...

In a dark lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, engineers and mathematicians are developing new burners and studying different flame...

QUEST takes to the high seas with researcher Dirk Rosen to study the underwater world off the California coast. In recent years, the state h...

Khalid Mosalam and his colleagues at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center's Shaking Table Laboratory are helping to make commu...

Experts warn that an offshore quake powerful enough to kill thousands and discharge a tsunami could hit the West Coast anytime. QUEST Northw...

In California, more renewable energy comes from geothermal energy than solar and wind, combined. Today, a new technology known as Enhanced G...
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