SLAC scientists work to install sensors in the world's biggest digital camera in the winter of 2019. The camera, completed in April, was custom-built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory under construction in Chile and will spend the next decade surveying the southern night sky. (Courtesy Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

World's Largest Digital Camera Built in the Bay Area to Illuminate Mysteries of the Universe

The 20-year project was completed by scientists and engineers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. It will study everything from dark matter to dark energy atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes.

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A car drives along a flooded street in Ross on Oct. 24, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Atmospheric Rivers in California’s Ancient Past Exceeded Modern Storms

New research sets a baseline for the intensity of atmospheric rivers in California and provides clues into storms the state will face as the world warms.

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FathomVerse is a free game that allows anyone with a phone or tablet to participate in ocean exploration and discovery. (Monterey Bay Aquarium)

How an Ocean Exploration Video Game Out of Monterey Bay Contributes to Science

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's FathomVerse brings you into an underwater world where you are an ocean explorer with a mission to save science. But the game is more than that: it’s helping train an AI model that could help scientists answer key questions about our oceans.

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EVENT: Climate Book Club

Let's turn the page on climate change together at our upcoming Climate Book Club! Join us on May 8 for an evening of insightful conversation led by KQED's Danielle Venton.

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An eel grass sea hare underwater resting on a blade of eelgrass. Eelgrass sea hares symbiotically co-evolved with eelgrass, a type of seagrass found near coastlines worldwide. Seagrass meadows help absorb carbon from the atmosphere and control erosion. (Mike Seely/KQED)

EVENT: Deep Look's Ocean Film Night

Join Deep Look on Weds. May 8 from 6-8pm for a special film night about plankton, mussels and sea slugs at San Francisco State University’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center in Tiburon. Josh Cassidy, Deep Look’s award-winning lead producer and cinematographer will be in conversation with the Center’s scientists. FREE Event.

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