QUEST: Science and Nature

Growing up in a small town in New Mexico, Elisa Quintana didn't even think about science. She grew up in a household tha... Read more

Researchers at NASA Ames and the University of California, Berkeley are designing what may be the next generation of spa... Read more

Alice Agogino's lab at the University of California, Berkeley and Vytas SunSpiral's team at the Dynamic Tensegrity Robot... Read more

Hyper-realistic video games. They're made using a technique called 3-D mapping. In the real world, 3-D mapping indoors i... Read more

Alex Okita teaches computers to see like we see. He designs and develops tools and games for the Structure Sensor, an at... Read more

Poop contains a lot of interesting stuff, including all kinds of microbes. Learn what these microbes do and how they can... Read more

Here in the US, we take clean drinking water for granted. In many parts of the world, however, modern water treatment si... Read more

Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford University, has created a fully functional microscope out of waterproof paper th... Read more

Manu Prakash and his lab at Stanford University have designed an origami based paper microscope, called a Foldscope. The... Read more

Quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity and atomic clocks that are accurate to one billionth of a second -- all... Read more

Meet Dr. Vi Rapp. She is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has a Ph.D. in mechanical en... Read more

What is combustion? What happens when wood burns? Learn about the chemistry of combustion in this animated explainer.Thi... Read more

Boyle’s Law describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas. Matt Wandell, a biologist at the California... Read more

An earthquake generates a series of seismic waves that travel through the interior or near the surface of the Earth. The... Read more

California and Arizona share the Mojave Desert, one of the world’s best locations for solar installations. As Californi... Read more

Meet the underwater characters that make a living cycling nutrients through the watershed. Learn how the physical, chemi... Read more

The oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface, they drive global climate and are critical to life on the continents. An... Read more

A recent scientific study shows sea otter activity off the coast of Washington State has removed CO2 from the atmosphere... Read more

We journey to Washington State’s Cascade Mountains, where the return of wolves could have a profound impact on this vast... Read more

This lighthearted animation takes us beneath the surface to see groundwater in action. Watch anthropomorphized drops of ... Read more