Physics
The Science of Riding a Bicycle
Their basic design hasn’t changed much, but scientists still don’t fully understand the forces that allow humans to balance atop a bicycle. QUEST visits Davis – a city that loves its bicycles – to take a ride on a research bike and explore a collection of antique bicycles.
Video on May 15, 2012 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
The Calligrapher's Golden Touch
When I was in LA this weekend and noticed that the Getty was showing a new illuminated manuscript exhibit, I had to check it out. The only work in the exhibit that wasn't centuries old belonged to San Francisco master calligrapher Thomas Ingmire.
Post on Mar 20, 2012 by Danna Staaf from QUEST Northern California
Starship Math: Are the Stars Our Destiny?
What would it take to send a spaceship to another star, all science fiction devices aside?
Post on Feb 24, 2012 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Got Science on the Brain? Come Blog with QUEST
Got science on the brain? Come blog with us. KQED’s QUEST is looking to add new voices to our blog, which already offers commentary from our producers, reporters, and several writers from science organizations in our region. pply by February 1st.
Post on Jan 02, 2012 by Craig Rosa from QUEST Northern California
Top KQED QUEST Stories of 2011
From hackerspaces to banana slugs, flying telescopes to cheese – it's been a quite a diverse year of storytelling here at QUEST. Here's a round-up of the top 10 video and audio stories and blog posts that you've enjoyed from the past year.
Post on Dec 21, 2011 by Jenny Oh from QUEST Northern California
'Tis The Season for the Science of Holiday Lights
Learn about the science of holiday lights with Discovery Street Tours in December.
Post on Dec 15, 2011 by Cat from QUEST Northern California
Energy-Saving Windows Get Smarter
Buildings are responsible for 40% of the country’s energy use. So, researchers are trying improve our energy efficiency by making windows dynamic and intelligent.
Audio Report on Nov 11, 2011 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
‘Superfast’ Muscles Help Bats Find Their Dinner
As a hunting bat closes in on a flying insect, its echolocation calls get closer and closer together, and shorter and shorter in duration. Scientists recently discovered how their muscles can produce more than 160 calls every second.
Post on Nov 09, 2011 by Carolyn Beeler from QUEST Philadelphia
Yo GAMMA GAMMA: Photo plates enable astronomers to peer back to the future
Dr. Michael Castelaz, the Science Director at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, knows GAMMA II is a sleeping giant. He just needs a little help waking up the beast.
Post on Nov 08, 2011 by David Huppert from QUEST North Carolina
NOVA “Fabric of the Cosmos” with Brian Green 11/2 Live Webcast
Today at 6PM PST, The World Science Festival, Columbia University and NOVA are hosting a screening of 'What is Space?' to coincide with the 'NOVA: Fabric of the Cosmos' series premiere. Also included will be Saul Perlmutter, local Lawrence Berkeley Lab astrophysicist and winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Post on Nov 02, 2011 by Craig Rosa from QUEST Northern California
The Gritty Side of Major League Baseball
The science behind the decades-old MLB tradition of rubbing down baseballs with mud before they hit the field.
Slideshow on Oct 24, 2011 by Carolyn Beeler from QUEST Philadelphia
Seeing Relativity: No Bungees Attached!
One hundred eleven years ago, Chabot Director Charles Burckhalter photographed a solar eclipse. What he couldn't know is that, almost two decades later, his pictures would be caught up in a race, to prove or disprove, one of the great Universe-changing theories in history.
Post on Oct 21, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Berkeley Lab Physicist Shares Nobel
Meet one of the three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Lawrence Berkeley Lab astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter. He explains how dark energy, which makes up 70 percent of the universe, is causing our universe to expand.
Video on Oct 04, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Lab: Engineering Fire
In a dark lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, engineers and mathematicians are developing new burners and studying different flames in hopes of better understanding the power of fire and how to make the most efficient flame possible.
Video on Sep 27, 2011 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Airborne Wind Energy
On the windswept tarmac of the former Alameda Naval Air Station, an inventive group of scientists and engineers are test-flying a kite-like tethered wing that may someday help revolutionize clean-energy. QUEST explores the potential of wind energy and new airborne wind turbines designed to harness the stronger and more consistent winds found at higher altitudes.
Video on Sep 13, 2011 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Web Extra: Orca Sounds vs. Underwater Noise
When listening for orca whales underwater, researchers distinguish their sounds from other noises such as boats, ships, and other sea animals with hydrophones. Learn how these instruments work in this web extra from QUEST Northwest.
Video on Sep 12, 2011 by Kevin Bang from QUEST Northwest
Goodbye to the Bevatron
With the demolition of the Bevatron, a chapter of the Bay Area's high-level physics research comes to a close.
Post on Jan 13, 2011 by Amy Standen
A National Expo of Science
This past weekend, I was on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. with a notebook and a very good pair of walking shoes. I spent the weekend exploring the inaugural expo of the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
Post on Oct 27, 2010 by Cat
Scientists Manipulate Atoms in Real Time
Imagine a future where iPods are capable of storing hundreds of thousands or millions of songs, where smart phones could play back several hundred times more feature-length Hollywood films than is currently possible, and where solar powered cells become dramatically more efficient in converting light to electricity.
It’s a future that may be possible thanks to research being done by IBM scientists in San Jose who have developed a new technique to manipulate individual atoms and measure how long they can store information in real time, over just a few billionths of a second. Their work could radically shrink a computer’s hard drive, allowing data to be stored on it more efficiently.
Post on Sep 24, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq
Producer's Notes: Color By Nano – The Art of Kate Nichols
Artist Kate Nichols synthesizes silver nanoparticles and incorporates them into her unique and colorful macroscale pieces.
Post on Sep 15, 2010 by Jenny Oh
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