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6:40

QUEST radio takes a look at the largest wetlands restoration in the West-- the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project. It will take decades and cost up to $1 billion to roll back the clock to the Bay's pre-industrial conditions.

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: May 18 2007

CHP officers with LIDAR guns at the ready
4:03

A growing number of Bay Area police are putting away their old radar guns and embracing new laser beam guns, clocking cars with much more precision than before. QUEST TV finds out how they work.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 1 2007

Andrea and pal at a demo table
2:00

QUEST teams up with Make Magazine to construct the latest must have, do-it-yourself device hacks, whiz-bang gizmos and techno do-dads.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 15 2008

abandoned mining shed and equipment
5:45

You might not know it from the textbooks, but California's gold rush was also a mercury rush. Quicksilver mines near San Jose provided gold miners with the mercury they needed to separate gold from ore. 150 years later, we're still facing the consequences of gold-rush era mercury.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 18 2008

anglers on a pier
5:45

Last week, we took a look at how mercury enters the San Francisco Bay. This week: Now that it's here, how is it affecting us? Quest talks to local fisherman, a physician, and a Bay ecologist to find out how we're contending with the Bay's worst toxin.

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 24 2008

vial of elemental mercury
3:44

Dr Jane Hightower was one of the first Bay Area doctors to start diagnosing mercury poisoning in her patients. In this audio clip, she explains how to know if you might be getting too much mercury from the fish you eat. And, she tells us what she feeds her 10-year old twin boys. (Hint: No tuna fish sandwiches in the Hightower home.)

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 24 2008

boxes and boxes and boxes
5:45

For the past three years, the California Academy of Sciences, the oldest natural history museum in the West, has been housed in a temporary building in downtown San Francisco. Now the Academy is moving into a new, 400,000-square foot green building in Golden Gate Park. But when the residents are fish, penguins and millions of scientific specimens, moving in is no simple task.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 2 2008

10:28

What's 100,000 times thinner than a strand of hair? A nanometer. Discover the nanotech boom in Berkeley, where researchers are working to unlock the potential of nanoscience to battle global warming and disease.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Mar 27 2007

wine in test beaker in laboratory
11:52

The Napa and Sonoma microclimates produce world famous wines, but what happens if the climate changes? Local scientists and wineries are beginning to look at how to prepare.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Jul 31 2007

9:41

Call them demolition derby astrophysicists: NASA Scientists in Mountain View are building a spaceship they will deliberately crash into the moon in 2008. Their goal? To find water for a future moon base.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 6 2007

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