* Devastating over 1 million oak trees across Northern California in the past 10 years, Sudden Oak Death is a killer with no cure. But biologists now are looking to the trees' genetics for a solution. * The monster waves at Mavericks attract big wave surfers from around the world. But what exactly makes these Half Moon Bay waves so big? * Quest talks with George Smoot, big bang researcher at UC Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.