Science on the SPOT HD Video Podcast

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

QUEST meets the San Francisco Zoo’s resident Peregrine Falcon, "Bella." Not long ago Peregrine Falcons were perched at t... Read more

Meet Shelley, a car that drives itself. Researchers at Stanford University have developed an autonomous race car and pla... Read more

The Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries cover more than 9... Read more

California Highway One, between Pacifica and Montara, was carved out of the steep coastal cliffs. Plagued by closures du... Read more

Artist Kate Nichols longed to paint with the iridescent colors of butterfly wings, but no such pigments existed. So she ... Read more

Pale ghosts that hide amidst their gigantic siblings, only a few dozen Albino redwood trees are known to exist. They are... Read more

San Francisco 's fickle summer weather has earned it the nickname "Fog City." Science on the SPOT asks UC Berkeley's Tod... Read more

The Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco are a vital home to many birds and marine mammals. While the forbidd... Read more

Can fire save the endangered Mission Blue Butterfly? The Golden Gate National Recreation Area experiments with using con... Read more

The California Academy of Sciences has the largest collection of biological reference materials west of the Mississippi.... 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

QUEST explores how the San Francisco Botanical Garden is toiling to bring one of the city's rarest native plants, the Fr... Read more

Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make co... Read more

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

The University Herbarium at the University of California - Berkeley boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of ... Read more

The rural foothills along the Santa Cruz County Coast hold an ancient secret. Deep below the redwoods, White Moon Cave e... Read more

SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observ... Read more

Scientists in San Francisco have coaxed mouse hearts to repair themselves from within. The breakthrough could lead to tr... Read more

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