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Unfortunately for German speedskater Patrick Beckert, the call did not get through. Why? Because his cell phone was off! Who would’ve thought that technology would actually inhibit progress and communication? The 19-year-old was the fourth alternate for the 1000m competition and somehow, the other three alternates could not be found either. Officials even contacted Beckert’s [...] More »
We do! Pi day is a great day here at the Science Center and it’s just around the corner! We’re going to celebrate this very special number in delicious, fun and challenging ways. Starting at noon, you’ll be able to jump right into the Pi madness! Help us complete our Pi chain using as many [...] More »
The Maryland Science Center is hosting quite an exciting weekend! Tomorrow marks the grand opening of our new traveling exhibit: GPS Adventures. Using clues, visitors make their way though an elaborate maze finding the hidden geocashes and learning about the various equipment and methods employed in such a hobby. Visitors are also invited to borrow [...] More »
Whether you’ve experienced it yourself or seen it on the news, you know that the east coast got slammed with record snowfall over the past two weeks. Areas in Western Maryland reported just over 30″, which breaks the 2003 record of 28.2 inches. Here are the previous top ten snowstorm records for Baltimore: •28.2 inches on [...] More »
Say hello to Nano & Pico! Once our education staffers figure a good way to tell them apart, they’ll fit them with different colored harnesses and start teaching them to respond to their names! I personally did not know that was even possible but if puppies can, why not chinchillas? Once the little guys get [...] More »
The Maryland Science Center has just welcomed their newest family members — two baby brother chinchillas! The chinchillas will belong to the education department and will be used to help our guests learn about all kinds of different animal characteristics, from feeding to habitat and everything in between. Chinchillas hail from South America and are crepuscular [...] More »
If you haven’t made it to the Science Center to see our Davinci: The Genius traveling exhibit, you’d better gather the family and hurry! The last day for this remarkable exhibit is Sunday, January 31st. It’s amazing how many of the things we use today were originally prototyped from DaVinci. You can see his drawings [...] More »
Researchers have built a new super-small “nanodragster” that improves on prior nanocar designs and could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines. “We made a new version of a nanocar that looks like a dragster,” said James Tour, a chemist at Rice University who was involved in the research. “It has smaller front wheels on [...] More »
On MLK Day (Monday, Jaunary 18th) the Maryland Science Center held our second annual Winter Wonder Day. We celebrated a lot of great things about winter and learned the science behind snowflakes. We also made snowflakes, salt water snow images and winter handprint tree art! Chef Derrick was kind enough to supply warm cider samples [...] More »
It’s easy to imagine catching a ball, holding it for a moment and then throwing it in the air again. It’s also easy to imagine scooping up a handful of water — say, from the ocean — and then releasing it again. But what about light? Is it possible to “catch” light — and then [...] More »