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PacSci Blog
PacSci Blog is where you can discover stories from Pacific Science Center. Learn what’s happening under the arches and beyond.
PacSci-Doku: Green Airline Food Service
PacSci-Doku: "Green Airline Food Service" By Dennis Schatz - Senior Advisor Do you Sudoku? It's one of the hottest number games around! Well, here's a twist we think you'll love. We call it PacSci-Doku. Can you guess why? Here's how it works. Instead of filling in the...
Fresh Sheet – October 19, 2019
This week’s list of new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House includes an explanation of one of the butterflies’ favorite activities: puddling.
Saturn: Number One In Moons
Twenty newly discovered moons makes Saturn the new king of moons in our solar system, and their discovery may mean much more.
Fresh Sheet – October 12, 2019
In this week’s shipment of butterfly pupae from Malaysia we are featuring Parthenos sylvia (The Clipper), a hardy, swift-flying species.
PacSci Podcast: Shakespeare and Science
In this PacsSci Podcast we look at an event coming up just before Halloween that focuses on an infamous story and examines it from a scientific perspective.
Fresh Sheet – October 5, 2019
This week’s pupae are from a Salvadorian vendor that we are currently featuring on the walls right outside our Tropical Butterfly House.
PacSci-Doku: Wonderful Together, Terrible Apart
Our latest science word puzzle is both yummy and yucky at the same time. Can you solve the “Wonderful Together, Terrible Apart” edition of PacSci-Doku?
The Science of Beer
Do you love beer? Do you know what goes into making this beloved beverage? It turns out there’s a whole lot more science involved than you might think.
Fresh Sheet – September 28, 2019
In this week’s list of the new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House, we are highlighting Battus polydamus, the Gold Rim Swallowtail.
AI: Something to Fear or Something Else?
Artificial Intelligence. You hear a lot about it these days but what is it really? We have a fascinating event coming up this month that we hope will help.
Fresh Sheet – September 21, 2019
This week’s pupae shipment to our Tropical Butterfly House comes from Suriname and contains a familiar-looking species that may fool you.
Scientist Becomes Ambassador
One of PacSci’s Science Communication Fellows has been appointed to a new position to help introduce more middle school girls to STEM fields.
The Art of Poop
A member of our staff has found some beautiful art in a most unexpected place – butterfly poop.
Fresh Sheet – September 7, 2019
The latest shipment of new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House contains six species of swallowtail butterflies from El Salvador.
The Science of Poop
In this PacSci Podcast we learn about scatology and why maybe you should be watching for poop. It may be yucky, but it tells a story.
PacSci Perspectives
This is Pacific Science Center’s home for news from under the arches and beyond. Find stories and ideas featuring our exhibits, IMAX theaters, events and programs that bring science to life and ignite curiosity in people of all ages. Find posts from our Wellbody Blog, an extension of Professor Wellbody’s Academy of Heatlh & Wellness, as well as our PacSci Life Blog, that follows all the happenings from our axolotls to our naked mole rats.
PacSci-Doku: Green Airline Food Service
PacSci-Doku: "Green Airline Food Service" By Dennis Schatz - Senior Advisor Do you Sudoku? It's one of the hottest number games around! Well, here's a twist we think you'll love. We call it PacSci-Doku. Can you guess why? Here's how it works. Instead of filling in the...
Fresh Sheet – October 19, 2019
This week’s list of new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House includes an explanation of one of the butterflies’ favorite activities: puddling.
Saturn: Number One In Moons
Twenty newly discovered moons makes Saturn the new king of moons in our solar system, and their discovery may mean much more.
Fresh Sheet – October 12, 2019
In this week’s shipment of butterfly pupae from Malaysia we are featuring Parthenos sylvia (The Clipper), a hardy, swift-flying species.
PacSci Podcast: Shakespeare and Science
In this PacsSci Podcast we look at an event coming up just before Halloween that focuses on an infamous story and examines it from a scientific perspective.