http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia Science in Action is a standard and high definition video podcast. It provides breaking science news and is updated weekly. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7712175[/vimeo] Year after year, monarch butterflies make Mexico's Sierra Madre their winter home. For years, scientists struggled to figure out how they knew where to go. They recently discovered the answer: the butterfly's antennae. (In Spanish with English subtitles) For more information, please go to these links: Publication in Science Article in Science Mexican Monarch ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/11/monarch-migration/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7457522[/vimeo] After spending numerous meetings with Maya Lin at the Academy and seeing how she distilled the stories told by some of the most venerable figures in the field of conservation biology into a final artwork, it seemed fitting that we should give a voice to someone who took a ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/11/science-informing-art-what-is-missing/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7223218[/vimeo] Open access is changing the way scientific research is being published. And many say for the better. When people discover they have a serious illness, they often want free and easy access to medical research. Open access allows this. But there's so much more to it. Open access allows researchers to ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/open-access-and-plos/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7186567[/vimeo] More information is trickling in... Images, too. But did LCROSS find water on the moon? We may have to wait until December to find out... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/lcross-post-impact/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7172545[/vimeo] As the Bay Area marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, we take a look at earthquake monitoring technology out of UC Berkeley. If you had a few second warning, what would you do? Thanks to our partners at KQED Quest for giving us a great story to put ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/earthquake-monitoring/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7088523[/vimeo] Is the recent dust storm that swept through Sydney a sign of climate change? The images were too amazing to pass this story up. As we were doing our research, we found this interesting article saying that dust storms help decrease the affects of global warming. No scientists were named in ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/dust-storms-and-climate-change/ Even without the immediate reward of a brilliant flash or decisive evidence for water on the Moon, the LCROSS impact promises success.  As the principal investigator put it during the press conference, he expected to be surprised and he was.  No fifth magnitude flare-up or giant plume of moondust, admittedly, ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/2449/ I left my house at 3am this morning and drove to NASA Ames to join a couple hundred others to watch the LCROSS impact. We were bundled up against the cold, but there was excitement in the air. Around 4:30ish, all eyes were glued to the large screen and we ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/lcross-stay-tuned/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/6987302[/vimeo] Gene therapy has proven to cure color blindness in squirrel monkeys— can the same process work for humans? We've been tracking a lot of vision stories lately... What have you found? http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/gene-therapy-for-color-blindness/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/6912029[/vimeo] In early morning hours this coming Friday, the LCROSS spacecraft will impact the moon at twice the speed of a bullet looking for water ice. Science in Action is sending one team to Mt. Diablo to observe the impact and one team to NASA Ames. We'll have an updated story ... http://www.calacademy.org/science/sia/2009/10/the-lcross-mission/