KQED Science Video Podcast

The rural foothills along the Santa Cruz County Coast hold an ancient secret. Deep below the redwoods, White Moon Cave extends for nearly a mile -- making it one of the longest caves in California. But few people have ever been in it. Join the KQED Science team as we squeeze through the narrow clandestine entrance, and meet the uncanny cave inhabitants to bring new light to this hidden realm.

Scientists and farmers are starting to notice that, as California's winters warm up, the state is becoming more hospitable to destructive agricultural pests.

In this edition of "Why I Do Science", we hear from Stephen Palumbi, a world-renowned marine biologist and director of the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California.

A new, nimble NASA telescope uses powerful x-ray vision to hunt for Black Holes - abundant yet invisible, massive space oddities.

Motion-activated cameras at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve provide scientists a window into the secret lives of the animals there.

Can nuclear power be produced safely and affordably? A scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is working to do just that.

QUEST Producer Sheraz Sadiq interviews Bay Area filmmaker and musician Jesse Hiatt about the experience of filming in one of the world's most extreme environments.

At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists are imaging whole cells in 3-D with the penetrating power of x-rays.

Astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo's photographs colorful wide field images of deep sky objects like galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.

SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It's a complete flying astronomical observation platform which carries a dozen or more astronomers, observers and crew far above the clouds to observe objects and phenomena too cold to be seen in visible light.