KQED Science Video Podcast

Looking up at the jet stream, Ken Caldera, a climate scientist from the Carnegie Institution of Global Ecology at Stanfo... Read more

The invasive Asian carp has wreaked havoc in the Mississippi River system. The voracious plankton eaters have out-compet... Read more

In a dark lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, engineers and mathematicians are developing new burners and stud... Read more

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is hard at work on a $4.6 billion, decade-long construction project to ove... Read more

An exoskeleton suit may seem like science fiction, turning ordinary humans into super heroes, but wearable robots are mo... Read more

More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that live... Read more

In 2006, the world learned that honeybees in America and Canada were dying in large numbers, and hives were becoming def... Read more

Their basic design hasn’t changed much, but scientists still don’t fully understand the forces that allow humans to bala... Read more

Scotts Valley photographer Bryant Austin swims eye-to-eye with the world's largest animals in order to bring attention t... Read more

Black holes have been the stuff of science fiction since their discovery in the late sixties. But now a new, nimble NASA... Read more

Can nuclear power be produced safely and affordably? A scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is working t... Read more

Ocean tides rise and fall twice a day, influenced by the gravitational forces of the sun and moon. Studying tides' rhyth... Read more

Monarch Butterflies migrate from all over the western United States to overwinter along the California coast. Conservati... Read more

One in six kids in the United States is obese, a condition that doubles their risk of heart disease. Lorena Ramos, 14, a... Read more

Forest ecologist Steve Sillett is leading a team of scientists as they climb and measure every branch of some of the las... Read more

By 2050, as our population ages, 15 million Americans will suffer from Alzheimer's disease - triple today's number. Rese... Read more

This half-hour program looks at heart disease – the number one killer in the United States – from the point of view of a... Read more

For decades amateur rocket builders, or "rocketeers," have been trying to reach space. Now with advances in materials an... Read more

At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists are using a cutting-edge microscope, the first of its kind in t... Read more

By rushing heart attack victims to the operating table and opening their blocked arteries while their heart attacks are ... Read more