
What Water Makes the Best Beer?
Shelley Smith, the Brewing Innovation Engineer at Sam Adams, talks about the science that goes into crafting a flawless pint.
5 Nov 202010min

Does the Moon Rotate?
Talia from our planetarium answers some of the most common questions that museum visitors ask about the Earth-Moon-Sun system, covering everything from Moon phases to eclipses.
3 Nov 202014min

Do Spiders Have Personalities?
Bats! Owls! Creepy-crawlies! For Halloween, we asked Liz from our Live Animal Care Center some of the best questions we've heard at the museum about spooky species.
27 Okt 202011min

What's Your Favorite Molecule?
We asked two MIT graduate students in chemistry, Jessica Beard and Angela Lee, how they got into science and what they are looking forward to in the future.
22 Okt 202010min

How Can I Explore Chemistry at Home?
We chat with Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri from the University of Wisconsin-Madison about his decades of experience creating safe, fun, and illuminating chemical experiments.
20 Okt 20208min

Had a Bad Day? Check Your Teeth
Social and psychiatric epidemiologist Dr. Erin Dunn explains how stressful events leave a permanent record on our teeth and how we can potentially use our molars and canines to predict future mental h...
15 Okt 202013min

How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Create Maps?
Benjamin Clark and Saikat Basu from Facebook tell us about their initiative to help identify roads using satellite images and deep learning.
8 Okt 202014min

Who Gets to Drive the Mars Rover?
How do you drive a rover from 40 million miles away? In part two of our conversation, we asked NASA engineer Rich Rieber about how the newest robot to explore Mars will get around.
2 Okt 202016min


















