QUEST Quiz: Sleep
Our companion story to "Catching Up on Sleep Science", this short segment serves as a quiz for viewers to test their knowledge about sleep and sleep disorders.
Video on Apr 13, 2010 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Catching Up on Sleep Science
Everyone can appreciate the value of a good night's sleep. But did you know that a lack of sleep can have real consequences for your health? QUEST investigates how sleep affects our minds and bodies and uncovers why some people are genetically programmed to need less sleep than others.
Video on Apr 13, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Web Extra: Great White Sharks in Captivity
Over the years The Monterey Bay Aquarium has had success holding a handful of great white sharks in their enormous outer bay exhibit tank. In the process scientists have learned much about these animals and millions of visitors have gotten a chance to meet a live white shark up close and personal.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Lab: Speed of Sound
Along with cable cars and seagulls, the Golden Gate Bridge foghorn is one of San Francisco's most iconic sounds. But did you know that if you hear that foghorn off in the distance, you can calculate how many miles you are from the bridge? Using the Speed of Sound exhibit at the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason, Shawn Lani shows us how sound perception is affected by distance.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
The New Bay Bridge: Earthquake Makeover
The new self-anchored suspension bridge being built to replace the vulnerable eastern span of the Bay Bridge is scheduled to open in 2013 and will be seismically and aesthetically revolutionary in its design. QUEST explores the engineering features that will give the new bridge the strength and flexibility to withstand the next "big one."
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Jon Fromer from QUEST Northern California
The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit
Worldwide sharks are now threatened due to extreme overfishing to satisfy the shark fin trade. QUEST ventures to The Farallon Islands and discovers that the creature of our imaginations may not be the monster we think it is. See why scientists are now tracking the movements of great white sharks in hopes of protecting them.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Science on the SPOT: Swimming with Sharks
In our first installment of QUEST's new Science on the SPOT web series, we go behind-the-scenes at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Meet the intrepid dive team who keeps the enormous Outer Bay Exhibit tank spic-and-span while swimming in 40 pounds of stainless steel, shark-resistant armor.
Video on Apr 02, 2010 by Craig Rosa from QUEST Northern California
The Farallon Islands – "California's Galapagos"
Lying 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, the Farallon Islands sit amid one of the most productive marine food webs on the planet and host the largest seabird breeding colony in the continental United States. QUEST ventures out for a rare visit to learn what life is like on the islands and meet the scientists who call this incredibly wild place home.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Maya Skies
Armed with laser technology, Bay Area engineers are helping create detailed virtual records of the world's great monuments. Their realistic recreation of the Mexican ruins of Chichén Itzá is the basis for "Tales of Maya Skies," a new half-hour film about Maya astronomy designed especially for a planetarium. The film opens at Oakland's Chabot Space & Science Center on November 21. QUEST takes you behind the scenes.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: Doug Nomura
San José photographer Doug Nomura has learned just how to track his subjects to create arresting photos of birds in flight. He focuses his work on the Bay Trail, a 300-mile trail around the Bay. QUEST joins Nomura on the bayfront in Sunnyvale as he works to photograph the many bird species that call the South Bay's mudflats home, or stop here as part of their migration.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Why I Do Science: Drew Endy
Stanford University's Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist, or as he puts it, someone who makes biology easier to engineer. He's one of the leading lights of this relatively new scientific field which builds on disciplines like computer science, electrical engineering and genetics. Find out why Endy is passionate about the cutting edge of biology.
Video on Oct 06, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Mercury in San Francisco Bay
There's a hidden danger in San Francisco bay: mercury. A potent neurotoxin that can cause serious illness, mercury has been flowing into the bay since the mining days of the Gold Rush Era. It has settled in the bay's mud and made its way up the food chain, endangering wildlife and making many fish unsafe to eat. Now a multi-billion-dollar plan aims to clean it up. But will it work?
Video on Oct 06, 2009 by Sarah Kass from QUEST Northern California
QUEST – National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People
QUEST examines how the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was saved from development, the rise of not-for-profit land trusts in protecting and restoring Northern California's open spaces, and how these vital places are used and maintained by the communities served by them.
Video on Sep 29, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
National Park Service – Soundscapes
In 2003, following a year-long nature sounds study in Sequoia National Park, Craig Miller, then founder of Vox Terra (now Senior Producer of Climate Watch) and Bernie Krause, founder of Wild Sanctuary, co-produced this four-and-a-half minute "journey." It takes you from the familiar cacophony of the urban soundscape to a serene spot in Sequoia Park. Take the journey and see how desensitized to urban noise you've become.
Video on Sep 29, 2009 by Craig Miller from QUEST Northern California
Video on Sep 25, 2009 by KQED QUEST staff
Youth Speaks Green: Simone Crew
Simone Crew of Youth Speaks, a San Francisco literary arts organization, recites "Yasmeena," one of her "green inspired" poems.
Video on Sep 22, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Illuminating Depression
Nearly 15 million Americans suffer from depression. Learn why depression is more than just "feeling blue," the difficulties of treating it with traditional medications and how new tools
and research are shedding light on brain structures that may play an integral role in treating it.
Video on Sep 22, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Illuminating Depression Extended Interview: Philippe Goldin
What is the link between anxiety and depression, and can a form of talk therapy help treat both conditions? Learn more in an extended interview with Philippe Goldin, Clinical Research Scientist for the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group at Stanford University.
Video on Sep 22, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Quiz: Algae
Which algae are most efficient at producing oil? What other uses have algae been given throughout history? Take the QUEST Quiz to find out.
Video on Sep 01, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Algae Power
In a co-production with NOVA scienceNow, QUEST explores the potential of algae—once considered nothing more than pond scum—to become the fuel of the future. Entrepreneurs from the Bay Area to LA are working to create the next generation of biofuels from algae. But will you ever be able to run your car off it?
Video on Sep 01, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
