In Rutherford’s Footsteps: What Makes Up Everything Around Us?

Over 100 years ago, a scientist named Ernest Rutherford discovered something amazing: the proton, a tiny part of every... Read More

Into the Deep: Ocean Exploration with the Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin

The ocean is Earth’s largest, most mysterious realm, and the deep sea remains more unexplored than the surface of... Read More

Earth: Hot and Cold

Earth is hot on the inside, so hot that iron melts. And it is much cooler on the surface.... Read More

Are we alone? UCLA SETI is on a quest to find out

How can we find evidence of life elsewhere?  Since 2016, UCLA SETI has been searching for signs of technology... Read More

The Power of the Sun, in the Palm of Your Hand

Come learn how to bring the power of the sun down to Earth. Starlight is produced by fusion and... Read More

Storm-chasing on the Sun

The peak of the solar cycle is finally upon us, bringing with it remarkable storms! Come discover what centuries... Read More

Filming the Quantum World: The Smallest and Most Elusive Constituents of Matter

We will learn about emerging and recent Nobel Prize frameworks for filming the quantum world using unique instruments that... Read More

When Earth was a Boiling Magma Ocean

Why did the Earth start out completely molten? Did you know the Earth was once hit by an object... Read More

Statistical Modeling to Quantitate the Central Dogma

Prof. Jingyi Jessica Li from UCLA Statistics will talk about how she used statistics to quantify the central dogma... Read More