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The future is squishy
Our imagination of robots has been stuck in the iron age. Science fiction seems only to invent bigger, sleeker versions of wind-up toys, or the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz. Recent innovations may...
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What’s possible when the WiFi is in your brain?
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, together with Brown University, Medtronic and Fraunhofer ICT-IMM in Germany, have made headlines with an implantable...
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7 Tips for Communicating Climate Change
One of the most critical areas of scientific research is also the most controversial. Climate change and global warming is an especially interdisciplinary field of study, which brings enormous...
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Christian Simm, Founder and CEO of swissnex San Francisco, heads to swissnex...
When Christian Simm came to San Francisco in 1997 as the Science and Technology Counselor for Switzerland, the city (and the world), was a very different place. Even though the smartphone had not yet...
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The disk drive is your DNA
Last March, scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute encoded data into human DNA, fitting 42 copies of the Library of Congress’ digital archive into a single gram. DNA holds massive advantages over all...
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Top 12 Science Communication Inspirations
In late October, 2015, my colleagues and I welcomed eight science communicators from Switzerland to swissnex San Francisco to attend some of the Bay Area Science Festival’s coolest events, to meet with...
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A Tale of Two Lands: Energy in the American West
You most likely heard about that bizarre militia standoff in Oregon at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. But did you find it hard to fathom what the two sides were even fighting for, and what the arguments...
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Switzerland goes to Mars
NASA’s latest mission to Mars, known as Insight, launched on Saturday from California — the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars, with the aim to help scientists understand how Earth-like...
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The Whimsical Side of SciComm
At the Pier 17 Science Studio, we’re often on the lookout for inspiring science communications work. Often, it’s large-scale public engagement projects, exhibitions, or tours. But sometimes science...
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Empathy vs. the Machines
We recently welcomed two experts to Pier 17 for an informal conversation about the implications of new technology on ethics and empathy: Dr. Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, is the UC Berkeley Professor of...
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