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How Can We Address Indoor Air Pollution?

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Why Do Scientists and the Public Disagree?

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What’s the Best Path to a Sustainable Future?

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To What Extent Should Organisms Be Collected from the Wild?

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Should We Allow Apps to Collect Private Health Data for Research?

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Does California’s Agriculture Industry Need More Water Restrictions Due to...

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Would You Eat Insects?

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What Would You Explore with a Foldscope?

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How Smart Should We Allow Robots to Get?

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Teaching NGSS with KQED’s “Engineering Is” E-books

The “Engineering Is” e-book series helps teachers incorporate engineering standards from the Next Generation Science Standards into their curriculum. Below are the standards addressed throughout the...

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How to Find the Epicenter of an Earthquake

Scientists use triangulation to find the epicenter of an earthquake. When seismic data is collected from at least three different locations, it can be used to determine the epicenter by where it...

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Building for Earthquakes

An earthquake forecast for the State of California was released by USGS, Southern California Earthquake Center and the California Geological Survey in 2008. It states that there is a greater than 99%...

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Measuring Earthquakes: Intensity and Magnitude

Scientists measure both the energy released in an earthquake and its damage. In 1902, Italian scientist Giuseppe Mercalli introduced a scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake based on its...

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San Francisco Bay Area Earthquakes and Faults

Most earthquakes happen along plate boundaries. Many of these locations are also where mountain building or volcanic activity occurs. Certain areas, sometimes referred to as earthquake belts, are more...

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Exploring Earthquakes

Geological processes shape life on Earth. They affect its surface, the evolution and distribution of our planet’s species, and impact people’s lives. Within the past century, scientists have gained...

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