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Air Pollution Lurks Inside Your Home
Californians spend over 45 billion dollars each year on health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Scientists at Berkeley Lab have identified the indoor air pollutants with the greatest health consequences, and they are now looking for ways to improve indoor air quality.
Post on Apr 29, 2013 by Jennifer Huber from QUEST Northern California
A Happy, Noisy Mess: Community Science Workshops Take Root in California
One Bay Area man brings "hands-on" science to low-income neighborhoods.
Audio Report on Apr 20, 2012 by Amy Standen from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: Randy Davis
Randy Davis and his adopted dog, Lucky, explore the far reaches of the Bay Area via mountain bike. Once there, Randy photographs spectacular locations that are typically hard to access by car or foot. His eye for light and shadow show a different side of CA's state parks that most visitors don't get to see.
Video on May 12, 2009 by Jenny Oh from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: John Albers-Mead
Foster City photographer and naturalist John Albers-Mead describes visiting the tide pools near Half Moon Bay as "a treasure hunt that changes by the minute." QUEST joins Albers-Mead on Moss Beach at low tide as he captures these sometimes-sunken treasures with his digital camera.
Video on Nov 18, 2008 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Under the Microscope: Science Struggles in Schools
California ranks second-lowest in the U.S. in fourth and eighth grade science achievement, according to a recent study. Since a large part of California's economy is devoted to technology, it is vital that California get its students up to speed. How bad is the problem? And what are schools and informal science education organizations doing to fill the gap?
Video on Oct 28, 2008 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Closing the Science Gap
The Bay Area is synonymous worldwide with high-tech innovation. Meanwhile, its students have some of the lowest math and science scores in the country. Quest takes a look at the state of public school science education in California, and asks how the state can nurture a homegrown workforce equipped to take on 21st century challenges.
Audio Report on Oct 27, 2008 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: Cris Benton
Join QUEST in our latest photography feature about viewers like you who love documenting science, environment and nature here in the Bay Area. Meet architect and photographer Cris Benton. To document the rich colors of the south San Francisco Bay's salt ponds, he places his camera in a very unique position: suspended from a kite.
Video on Sep 30, 2008 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST – Erin Malone
Join QUEST in our latest photography feature about viewers like you who love documenting science, environment and nature imagery here in the Bay Area. This week, meet Erin Malone, who makes beautiful, impressionistic images in a place that many overlook or see as ugly– the subtly hued mud & marsh of South San Francisco Bay.
Video on Jul 22, 2008 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Moving Day
For the past three years, the California Academy of Sciences, the oldest natural history museum in the West, has been housed in a temporary building in downtown San Francisco. Now the Academy is moving into a new, 400,000-square foot green building in Golden Gate Park. But when the residents are fish, penguins and millions of scientific specimens, moving in is no simple task.
Video on May 02, 2008 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
Do-it-Yourself Science: The Maker Faire
It's been called "Burning Man for science geeks." The annual Maker Faire attracts thousands of amateur inventors and scientists, displaying their home-made prototypes and gadget hacks. In a world where the technological race is speeding up, the Maker movement has revealed that the do-it-yourself culture is in no danger of dying out.
Video on Sep 25, 2007 by Josh Rosen from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST – Russ Morris
QUEST launches a new photography feature about viewers like you who love documenting science, environment and nature imagery here in the Bay Area. This week, meet Russ Morris, who takes pictures using 2 cameras at once– one old, one new– to create unique images.
Video on Sep 11, 2007 by Josh Rosen from QUEST Northern California
Story Time with Young Science Authors
What do kids age 5-8 think about science? Young authors from the KQED Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest read their science-themed contest entries.
Video on Jul 17, 2007 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Coffee and Pi: Bay Area Science Cafés – TV Story
It's a typical afternoon at a cafe– cappuccinos, conversation… and the science of black holes? Bay Area "science cafes" have exploded in popularity, putting scientists and everyday folks face to face for casual science roundtables.
Video on Jun 26, 2007 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
