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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 2h

Would you eat a battery to power electronic medical devices? 🔋🧪 Learn about digestible batteries, the origin of our brain and more with us on Substack: thatslifefrommuseumofscience.substa…

A display in a science museum features text asking, "Would you eat a battery?" alongside a battery emoji. The text describes research on the human body, including digestible batteries. The background shows visitors and museum exhibits.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 4h

✨ Meet Mark Rober? Yes, really! ✨ We're giving away a VIP trip for two: front-row seats to Mark Rober's live show at the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common, flights, hotel, and a private meet & greet at the Museum of Science. 🚀 🧪 Enter now: www.mos.org/mark-rober-s...

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 7h

Not all mold is pathogenic, and blue cheese's mold is an example of a non-pathogenic mold.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 7h

🚀 What's one piece of future technology you can't wait to see become everyday normal?

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 9h

Alaskan huskies are bred for raw strength, built to haul rangers and gear across 2 million acres of wilderness. Mammoth is this litter’s resident troublemaker, with a big appetite to match. The good news? Rowdy pups often grow into strong sled dogs.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 9h

Move over, Fat Bear Week: Denali’s Chunky Puppy Day is here! Champion Mammoth weighed in at a hefty 77.1 pounds, already two-thirds of his adult size at just 6 months old.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 10h

These roots penetrate soft foods like bread and fruit with ease, while hard cheeses and vegetables are more resistant. These molds can contain mycotoxins, poisonous compounds that are hazardous to your health. Would you eat moldy food?

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 10h

Does cutting the moldy spot off your food make it safe? 🍞 🧪 Quinten Geldhof, also known as Microhobbyist, takes us under the microscope to reveal thread-like roots called hyphae spreading through food far beyond the visible surface. #Science #Microscope #Mold #Microscopy #Biology

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every spacecraft, aircraft, and safety-critical system designed to expect the unexpected carries a piece of her work.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When alarms flooded Apollo 11’s guidance computer during the 1969 lunar descent, her team’s software kept the most critical tasks running so the landing could go forward. She also helped establish software engineering as its own discipline and popularized the term itself.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today we remember Margaret Hamilton, who helped make humanity’s first steps on the Moon possible. Hamilton led he MIT team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo missions, has died at 90.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🐬 Common dolphins off New Zealand are showing signs of being biologically older than their actual age, and researchers link it to a buildup of "forever chemicals" in their bodies.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Want to be the first to get tickets to see Trevor Noah, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, TJ Klune, and the Women in Space panel? Become a member and be among the very first to get a chance to purchase tickets before these events open to the public tomorrow, October 9. www.mos.org/bloomberg-pu...

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, though having it can help you observe the effect from different angles more easily 🕯️

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How are memories stored in our brains? 🧠🧪 Learn more about some of the latest in neuroscience with us on Substack: thatslifefrommuseumofscience.substa…

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most light passes through the glass, but some of the light from the close candle bounces back at us, creating a reflection that makes the flame seem to appear on the far candle. This optical illusion is similar to Pepper's Ghost!

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is this candle haunted? 🕯️👻🧪 @alexdainis.bsky.social places two candles on a lazy Susan with a piece of glass in between, and when the closer candle is lit, its flame appears to jump to the other one. #Illusion #Light #Science #STEM #ScienceDemo

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They’re all taking the stage at the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common to explore the questions shaping our world 🎟️ Become a member to get pre-sale on October 8. General ticket on sale is October 9. 🔗 www.mos.org/bloomberg-pu...

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📚 NYT bestselling author TJ Klune celebrates the new edition of Murmuration, where the "what if" of science fiction meets the "how does it work" of science.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚀 Our Women in Space panel with @drsianproctor.bsky.social and Amanda Nygeun, moderated by Athena Brensberger goes behind the scenes of what it takes to explore beyond Earth.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The biggest conversations in science are happening here this fall! 🎤 Trevor Noah sits down with an AI expert to ask where this technology is really taking us. 🧬 Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses his latest research and the importance of public trust in science.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the horizon sit yardangs, wind-carved cliffs in a layer scientists say looks out of place: the wrong color, oddly tilted, and possibly made of ancient volcanic ash. Curiosity hopes to reach their base in 2027 and use its robotic arm to help solve the mystery.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NASA's Curiosity rover captured this panorama at 8:30 a.m. local Mars time, skipping the usual white balancing to preserve the blue glow of early Martian light. 🌅

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⭐ For a century, scientists suspected the giant star Betelgeuse had a hidden companion star too faint to detect in its glare. Astronomers have now confirmed it's really there!

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do bears hibernate? 🐻🧪 As the seasons shift, we dicuss some of the science behind torpor and how to lower your emissions during a busy travel season. Learn more with us on Substack: earthshiftfrommuseumofscience.subst…

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧪 Chemists just flipped a century old reaction on its head. An LED light at room temperature triggered the same carbon bonding reaction that normally needs harsh chemicals and heat, a discovery now called Anti-Friedel-Crafts.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The chemistry: borate ions cross-link glue's long polymer chains, turning runny glue into slime. Less activator makes it stretchy like the toy, while just enough makes it a surprisingly satisfying debris grabber.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know slime can be a helpful cleaning tool? 🫟🧪 @wolfscience.bsky.social tweaks the classic glue and borax recipe to make slime tacky enough to grab dirt but clean enough to pull away. #ScienceExperiments #Science #Chemistry #Slime #DIY

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This mucus has adhesive and cohesive properties, letting the tree frog stick to surfaces in a process called wet adhesion. This adaptation helps tree frogs defy gravity, even on wet tree leaves or bark. #Frogs #Herpetology #Amphibians #Animals #Science

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do tree frogs' feet stick? 🐸🧪 Their feet don’t have suction cups! Instead, glands in their toes expel mucus through narrow grooves between the tiny hexagonal cells on their toe pads.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The tool has opened new ways to understand how the brain shapes memory, behavior, and disease. Join us in celebrating!

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations to Boston native Karl Deisseroth, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! 🧠🏅 He shares the prize with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discovering optogenetics: using light-sensitive proteins from green algae to switch brain cells on and off with light.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On October 9 & 10, suit up in a giant robot to battle monstrous Kaiju with "Pacific Rim" as part of our Sci-Fi Supersized movie run. Get tickets here: bit.ly/4cmhlOI

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📢 Calling all Science Creators! Join us at SciCom Summit on November 2! 📢 🧪 Leading science creators, scientists, and communicators will spend a day at the Museum of Science's newly opened space, William & Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common, to explore the future of science communication.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔬 What's one scientific mystery you wish got solved in your lifetime?

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Scientists also documented active spawning in newly accessible habitat and juvenile Chinook using tributaries cut off for over a century. #Environment #Biodiversity #MarineBiology #STEM #Science

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After the Klamath River's last four dams came down in 2024, researchers used sonar and video to count an estimated 7,742 adult Chinook salmon past the former Iron Gate Dam site, and that number jumped to over 13,300 in 2025.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can removing a dam fix an ecosystem? 🌊🧪 Habitat fragmentation is a major driver of biodiversity decline because split habitats make it harder for animals to move, survive, and reproduce.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🦠 A geothermal amoeba was just found thriving at 63°C, shattering what scientists thought were the limits for complex single celled life.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unlike most meteor showers, the Draconids peak in the evening instead of after midnight and are visible across the Northern Hemisphere and northern parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Find a spot away from bright lights, give your eyes time to adjust, and look up!

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Draconid meteor shower is active for one night only: October 8th to 9th! 🌠🧪 Most years you can see up to 10 meteors per hour, but rates can spike without warning to as many as 600 per hour, as seen in 2011 and 2018.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We can't say for sure it's a Mars biosignature, because non-biological processes can make these minerals too. However, those processes leave other evidence in the rocks that we're not seeing. That means our best explanation right now is past Martian biology.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did Perseverance find evidence of past life on Mars last year? 🦠🧪 The rover discovered very specific minerals on the rim of a Martian crater. On Earth, those minerals are biosignatures, or evidence of life. #Space #Mars #Exploration #SolarSystem #Science

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