Developments and discoveries with the biggest impact, as curated by the KQED Science team.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2019/12/23/the-big-science-and-environment-stories-of-the-decade/
A collection of the best science books for summer produced by the health and medicine news site STAT.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2019/06/26/the-best-health-and-science-books-to-dip-into-this-summer/
The Bay Area is serving up seriously spooky science events all week for people of all ages.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/10/26/celebrate-halloween-with-these-spooky-science-events/
Fire behaves differently depending on whether it burns in grasses, shrubs or forest. Firefighters know this well -- but scientists say that land managers and homeowners should think about it, too...
A new play in Oakland highlights the lives of three under-recognized female scientists and Nobel Prize winners.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/10/12/female-geniuses-gets-intimate-portrait-in-bay-area-play/
The American winner, Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, entered the record books of the Nobel Prizes by becoming the oldest laureate at age 96.
'Fire whirls' are not unusual, but the tornado-like scale and ferocity of the whirl in Redding stunned even the experts.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/07/30/reddings-firenado-was-not-your-garden-variety-fire-whirl/
Fires that burn quickly downhill are especially worrisome as towns are often situated at the base of the mountains.
Einstein’s theory says the fabric of the universe is not simply space, but a more complex entity called space-time. Black holes offer a good opportunity to test that idea.
Renown physicist Burt Richter leaves behind a prolific legacy filled with groundbreaking contributions that have helped to advance the field of physics.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/07/20/nobel-prize-winning-stanford-physicist-burton-richter-dies/
If widely adopted, direct carbon capture from the air could bring down costs and help reverse the course of global warming.
In Hollywood, it’s not all about getting the science right; it’s really about how science can inspire the twists and turns in a great story. We talk with the man who helps ignite that inspira...
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/06/11/lets-talk-thors-hammer-and-wakanda-sciencewise/
Scientists are hoping to create an early warning system for earthquakes on the West Coast.
Despite the accuracy of quantum theory, there's a lot of disagreement over what it says about reality.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/03/22/the-puzzle-of-quantum-reality/
Stephen Hawking was a regular visitor to California, often to Caltech, where he wrote a paper that changed the world of physics.
When Einstein, born 139 years ago on Wednesday, came onto the science scene, physics was in crisis.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/03/14/the-universe-according-to-albert-einstein/
The rock star scientist inspired people the world over with his brilliance and humor.
This week physicists, data scientists and classical scholars are at Stanford, on the hunt for a form of buried treasure.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/03/13/hunting-for-historical-buried-treasure-x-rays-mark-the-spot/
Scientists at UC Berkeley have a more precise map now of Bay Area lands at risk of being underwater by the end of the century.
The NASA probe that has spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken out of orbit and sent plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/09/15/cassinis-saturn-mission-goes-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory/
You can watch animals to see how they behave, record sounds, or take photos for a movie by Google and UC Berkeley.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/08/11/help-make-history-eclipse-projects-for-citizen-scientists/
A scientist at CalTech in Pasadena has learned to control the way snowflakes grow in his lab. Is it still true that every snowflake is really unique?
SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak says privatized space tourism, like SpaceX's moonshot for millionaires, will bring the price of space travel down for everyone.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/03/06/moon-travel-must-have-a-big-checkbook/
Some of the most exciting science stories of 2016 happened in physics. Here's your chance to understand them.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/12/30/icymi-black-holes-colliding-and-a-map-of-the-early-universe/
Scientists from CalTech, Stanford and Sonoma State helped discover the ripples in spacetime that Einstein predicted a century ago.
Visitors to icy lakes are sometimes treated to the sounds of a space age battle. Why? NPR's Skunk Bear takes on the cold case in their latest video.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/12/21/why-does-a-frozen-lake-sound-like-a-star-wars-blaster/
They hope to answer one of the big mysteries of our universe: Why is there so much regular old matter and not much antimatter?
Scientists at UC Berkeley have built a tiny, wireless sensor that might someday be able to monitor muscles or organs in real time, stimulate nerves to treat diseases, or allow people to control p...
Scientists are worried about how Britain's departure from the European Union would hurt the continent's mega-projects and its researchers. Scientific collaboration "should know no borders," says ...
And how "geographical engineering" with atomic explosives almost became a thing. What could go wrong?