PacSci Blog
PacSci Blog
PacSci Blog is where you can discover stories from Pacific Science Center. Learn what’s happening under the arches and beyond.
PacSci Podcast: Let’s Engineer It
PacSci’s next 3-day weekend event is coming up May 3-5, 2019 and it’s all about some of the most important scientists in the world: engineers.
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Fresh Sheet – April 20, 2019
This week’s pupae for our Tropical are from El Salvador, and include a nice mixture of species.
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Science for Breakfast April 24
More than 750 local business, civic, educational and philanthropic leaders will gather on April 24 in support of providing access to hands-on STEM programs.
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PacSci Podcast: Drone Day
Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 1, 2019 as Pacific Science Center hosts an event that takes science to new heights: Drone Day.
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Sleep Myths Busted
New research shows long held beliefs about sleep may be damaging our health, our mood, and may be shortening our lives.
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Assassins in The Springtime
The ‘white-eyed assassin’ sounds like a character you’d encounter in a cloak-and-dagger TV drama or videogame. In actuality, it’s one of our resident bugs.
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Fresh Sheet – April 13, 2019
In this week's pupae shipment from Costa Rica, we are getting a small number of Rothschildia lebeau (Lebeau's Rothschildia), a small but stunning silk moth with large transparent sections of its wing. The name silk moth is a little confusing. There are domestic...
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PacSci Podcast: Summer Hikes at The Slough
Get set for a summer of discovery as we explore the flora, fauna and history of our area in one of the best urban nature parks on the planet.
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PacSci Podcast: Get Ready To Hit The Beach, Carefully
Spring and summer are here and that means it’s time to get outdoors and explore our world, especially local beaches at super low tides.
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Fresh Sheet – April 6, 2019
This week’s list of new residents to our Tropical Butterfly House features Biblis hyperia, commonly known as the Red Rim.
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Thank You, Volunteers
It’s National Volunteer Week and we’re celebrating the hundreds of volunteers who are indispensable in all that we do.
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A Million Ways to Reproduce
Scientists think stick insects sometimes spread their eggs through birds that eat them. They spread them as they do seeds – through their digestive system.
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Fresh Sheet – March 30, 2019
This week shipment of new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House comes from Malaysia and includes one species that has baffled our staff for a long time.
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PacSci Podcast: Exploring Local History…Under Water
On April 16, Pacific Science Center invites you to spend the evening with us to learn from local historians who do most of their work under water.
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“Every Dog Has Superpowers”
NPR talks with the director of the new movie Superpower Dogs and learns what it’s like to tell a story when you have no idea how the story turns out.
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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 Podcast: Let’s Engineer It
PacSci’s next 3-day weekend event is coming up May 3-5, 2019 and it’s all about some of the most important scientists in the world: engineers.
Fresh Sheet – April 20, 2019
This week’s pupae for our Tropical are from El Salvador, and include a nice mixture of species.
Science for Breakfast April 24
More than 750 local business, civic, educational and philanthropic leaders will gather on April 24 in support of providing access to hands-on STEM programs.
PacSci Podcast: Drone Day
Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 1, 2019 as Pacific Science Center hosts an event that takes science to new heights: Drone Day.
Sleep Myths Busted
New research shows long held beliefs about sleep may be damaging our health, our mood, and may be shortening our lives.