America’s New Space Roadmap
There are big changes in store for American space flight. More »
Weekly Twitter Roundup: 8/23-8/27, 2010
The Brazilian fire tornado is the star this week! Plus, new planets discovered by NASA's Kepler probe and a new website for Baltimore's street corner astronomer. More »
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Weekly Twitter Roundup: 8/16-8/20, 2010
This week: The true story of the woolly mammoth's demise, electricity from an exploding lake, a picture of Earth from 140 million miles away and much more! Follow us @MDScienceCenter ! More »
Now THIS is Skydiving!
On this day in 1960, United States Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger walked to the doorway of a balloon-suspended gondola 102,800 feet above the surface of the Earth and jumped out. More »
Weekly Twitter Roundup: 8/9-8/13, 2010
Rubik's cube solving, a pyramid exploring robot, a stinky scratch and sniff and more! More »
Man’s New Best Friend
When the word “robot” hits our ears, our minds might generate several images: R2D2, The Terminator, Wall-E, or maybe that robot you saw in your school’s science fair in fourth grade. Whatever it is, science fiction movies have depicted robots in various ways, both in how they look and in what they do. The movie [...] More »
Twilight: New Moon(s)
Did I trick any Twilight lovers out there? Sorry to disappoint you fan-pires, but this post is not about the movie, but about today being the birthday anniversary of astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine. Twilight: New Moon might not have been around when Charles Perrine was born in Ohio on July 28th in 1867, but Jupiter’s [...] More »
Vampire Myths = Real Life?
The final movie in the Twilight saga opened at the Maryland Science Center’s IMAX Theater last week. Whenever I hear the word “vampire” I automatically think of the blood-sucking villains from the scary stories I heard growing up. While I know that’s not “real life,” there’s actually some solid science behind many of the myths [...] More »
World Cup Science
All eyes are on the excitement in South Africa as 32 nations vied for the grandest prize in soccer, the World Cup. The U.S. team fought hard in Saturday’s overtime match against Ghana but the game ended in an unfortunate loss for the U.S. Nonetheless, watching the remaining games will be exciting—and educational! Some articles [...] More »
Carnival Science
Come one, come all! This weekend, the Maryland Science Center will be hosting its annual Carnival Science Days. Everyone loves going to a carnival, and watching the acrobats and performers as they thrill us with death-defying feats. But we always seem to wonder… how exactly can they do all those amazing tricks? It’s Science! Ever [...] More »