Web Extra: Can We Prevent Asthma?
Can parents do anything to help prevent their kids from getting asthma? QUEST takes a look at some leading hypotheses.
Video on May 19, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Lab: The Resonator
Quest goes to the Exploratorium to learn how and why helium changes the sound of your voice.
Video on May 19, 2009 by Chris Bauer 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
California's Lost Salmon
Because of a sharp decline in their numbers, the entire salmon fishing season in the ocean off California and Oregon was canceled in both 2008 and 2009. Quest looks at efforts to protect the coho in Northern California and explores the important role salmon play in the native ecosystem.
Video on May 12, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Saving California's Salmon
You may not think of salmon when visiting Muir Woods, but it's home to endangered Coho Salmon. Meet the volunteers working to restore Redwood Creek and bring back salmon habitat after decades of human influence.
Video on May 11, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Goodbye to the Bevatron
For the last 18 years, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has had the physics equivalent of a rusty pickup truck parked in its front yard. Now, the 1950s era Bevatron is being demolished, and a chapter in the Bay Area's history of high level physics research comes to a close.
Video on Apr 20, 2009 by KQED QUEST staff
Web Extra: At the Core of Climate Change
How do we know that the climate is changing? In this video, provided by scientist Kendrick Taylor, learn how 8-foot long ice core samples extracted from deep in the ice layer of Antarctica hold key evidence of rapidly changing climactic conditions.
Video on Apr 17, 2009 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Climate Watch: California at the Tipping Point
The world's climate is changing and California is now being affected in both dramatic and subtle ways. Get an in-depth look at the science behind climate change as we explore the environmental changes taking place throughout the state.
Video on Apr 17, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Quiz: The Moon
In an average lifetime, a person experiences about 936 full Moons. So, how old is the Moon? How was it formed? Take the QUEST Quiz to find out how much you REALLY know about Earth's Moon.
Video on Apr 07, 2009 by Josh Rosen from QUEST Northern California
NASA Ames Rocket to the Moon
Call them demolition derby astrophysicists: NASA scientists in Mountain View deliberately crashed an unmanned rocket into the moon on October 9th, 2009. Their goal? To find water, in the form of ice, which could one day support a moon base. On November 15th, 2009, they announced they had found it. QUEST looks at the planning and run-up to the big event.
Video on Apr 07, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Cool Critters: Opossums
Did you know that opossums are good to have in your backyard? Learn why and a bunch of other cool critter facts when we visit the wildlife ambassadors that live at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, CA.
Video on Mar 31, 2009 by Joan Johnson from QUEST Northern California
The World's Most Powerful Microscope
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab recently turned on a $27 million electron microscope. Its ability to make images to a resolution half the width of a hydrogen atom made it the most powerful microscope in the world.
Video on Mar 31, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Web Extra: Nudging with Nukes
Most scientists agree that using nuclear explosives to deflect an incoming asteroid is a bad idea. But Astrophysicist David Dearborn from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been heating up the debate with his theories about how nuclear explosives could be used effectively to nudge an asteroid into a new orbit that causes it to miss the Earth entirely.
Video on Mar 24, 2009 by Lindsay Kelliher from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Lab: Five-Cent Battery
How much electrical power will a nickel buy you? This week the Exploratorium shows us how to make an LED flashlight battery for only five cents.
Video on Mar 24, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Asteroid Hunters
Everyone knows that eight planets orbit the Sun. But thousands of other objects, including icy comets and football field-sized asteroids, are also zooming around our solar system. And some of them could be on a collision course with Earth. QUEST explores how these Near Earth Objects are being tracked and what scientists are saying should be done to prevent a deadly impact.
Video on Mar 24, 2009 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Web Extra: Citizen Science – Mud Snails
They spend hours in the mud in search of a tiny snail. Meet the volunteers working with the Bay Institute to eradicate an invasive Japanese mud snail on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Video on Mar 23, 2009 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
Medicine from the Ocean Floor – Blog Video
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz are using robots to sort through thousands of marine chemicals in search of cures for diseases like cholera, breast cancer, and malaria.
Video on Mar 20, 2009 by KQED QUEST staff
Animal Chefs
Ever wonder how to make krill shakes, squid tacos or fishy sausages to tempt the taste buds of a 400-pound mola mola? The chefs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium prepare such meals daily to feed thousands of species, from otters to octopi to sharks. Find out what it takes to come up with nutritious and tasty meals for diners with wild appetites.
Video on Mar 17, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: Laura Watt
Photographer Laura Watt has lived in the Bay Area for most of her life but it was not until she started sailing in San Francisco Bay at age 35 that she began to appreciate the patterns, textures and colors of the precious water that surrounds us all. Self-described as "trawler trash," she lives aboard her boat in San Rafael's Loch Lomand Marina, granting her a front row seat to the dynamic body of water that she captures so well in her moody, intimate images.
Video on Mar 17, 2009 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Zeppelins Resurrected
In 1935, the USS Macon went down in 1000 feet of water off the coast of Monterey, California. Now, as scientists study the recently-discovered wreckage, dirigibles are returning to the Bay Area. But these aren't the same dirigibles – these are new and improved.
Video on Mar 17, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
