A nanotech boom in the Bay Area has begun, but what will it bring? And how do we help seeing adults who are progressively losing their vision?
The birth and blossoming of the Bay Area environmental movement, including a look at past successes - from cleaning up smog to protecting open space - are examined in depth. Also: the Bay Area's most urgent eco-threats in the decades ahead.
Learn more about California's new efforts to reduce pollution from diesel soot from aging ships, trucks and buses, a health threat whose most serious impacts are on low-income areas. And find out how scientists are flipping evolution on its head by studying the DNA of living animals to discover more about the earliest mammals. Plus, San Francisco maps its urban forest online.
Is eating less the secret to a longer life? It seems to be for some animals. Find out what scientists have learned. And discover new attempts by geologists to better understand and possibly predict earthquakes. Plus, Quest launches a new photo series featuring science and nature imagery from viewers like you.
Visit the largest wetlands restoration project ever attempted in the West, now underway right here in San Francisco Bay, and find out how scientists are using technology to watch the brain at work. Plus, explore 3-D mapping of the Pacific Ocean floor.
Go inside the California fire season and the challenges it poses to firefighters and forest managers, and visit the Maker Faire, a San Mateo County event known as "The Woodstock for Inventors" that is home to a do-it-yourself movement. Plus, get a second life - online.