Listing of Stories
The rates of childhood asthma in the United States rose 160 percent from 1980 to 1994 and have remained high ever since, making this chronic lung illness the country's third most common pediatric disease. QUEST meets Bay Area researchers who are investigating possible environmental and social culprits.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 19, 2009
Can parents do anything to help prevent their kids from getting asthma? QUEST takes a look at some leading hypotheses.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 19, 2009
Quest goes to the Exploratorium to learn how and why helium changes the sound of your voice.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 19, 2009
NASA will soon attempt to launch an unusual satellite. Most satellites are the size of a car, but this one is small enough to fit inside a glove compartment. Mini-satellites are reaching space in increasing numbers, thanks also to a do-it-yourself satellite program at Stanford University.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: May 18, 2009
Mini-satellites are reaching space in increasing numbers. Check out a few of the satellites built by Stanford University and others.
Randy Davis and his adopted dog, Lucky, explore the far reaches of the Bay Area via mountain bike. Once there, Randy photographs spectacular locations that are typically hard to access by car or foot. His eye for light and shadow show a different side of CA's state parks that most visitors don't get to see.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 12, 2009
Because of a sharp decline in their numbers, the entire salmon fishing season in the ocean off California and Oregon was canceled in both 2008 and 2009. Quest looks at efforts to protect the coho in Northern California and explores the important role salmon play in the native ecosystem.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 12, 2009
You may not think of salmon when visiting Muir Woods, but it's home to endangered Coho Salmon. Meet the volunteers working to restore Redwood Creek and bring back salmon habitat after decades of human influence.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 11, 2009
Sudden Oak Death is devastating oak forests along the coast, killing trees that are key to the ecology of the coastal hills. Researchers have found a way to inoculate individual trees from the disease, but are struggling in their search to find a more sweeping answer to the threat.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: May 11, 2009
Why are health officials so worried about swine flu? A major reason is that against it, we are almost defenseless. Apart from the drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, which must be taken in the first 48 hours, swine flu is untreatable. The swine flu scare is only the latest chapter in an ongoing arms race between humans and viruses. But some scientists believe the end may be in sight.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: May 4, 2009
Rocket to the Moon/Tracking Raindrops
- Sun, Nov 22 at 11:30AM, on KQED World
California's Lost Salmon/Beyond Bio-Fuels
- Tue, Nov 24 at 7:30PM, on KQED 9HD
- Wed, Nov 25 at 1:30AM, on KQED 9HD
Rocket to the Moon/Tracking Raindrops
- Thu, Nov 26 at 6:30AM, on KQED World
California's Lost Salmon/Beyond Bio-Fuels
- Sat, Nov 28 at 1:30PM, on KQED World
- Sat, Nov 28 at 7:00PM, on KQED World
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