Spend a fun afternoon learning science things. Head over to the Providence Public Library this Saturday for Mad Science: Fire & Ice. Join us as we welcome Mad Science to PPL! This spectacular show thrills audiences with impressive science experiments and includes foggy dry ice storms and demonstrates how giant beach balls can float in …
Twenty-three feet in diameter! An enormous art installation by English artist Luke Jerram is coming to Providence this month as part of a larger series of events and exhibitions presented by the NASA RI Space Consortium in association with WaterFire Providence. This highly-detailed, 23′ diameter, moon sculpture will be installed in the main hall of …
Fifty years ago today Apollo 8 astronaut, Bill Anders, captured this iconic image. He was supposed to be shooting the moon but couldn’t resist. For some time after the mission, there had been confusion as to which astronaut had actually snapped this photo. Brown alum, and moon mission fanatic, Andrew Chaikin wrote about getting to …
(7.19) This month at Providence Geeks: At the July Providence Geeks, Rhode Island Museum of Science & Art (RIMOSA) Founder and Executive Director Bonnie Epstein will join us to talk about the museum. Many of you have seen RIMOSA’s pop-up exhibits at WaterFire, RI Mini Maker Faire, Foo Fest, Providence Children’s Film Festival and other …
(4.30) The Brown computer science department is hosting its annual Robot Block Party Sunday at the Pizzitola Center. Facebook event page. The Robot Block Party is a celebration of National Robotics Week. This year, the Robot Block Party will be Sunday, April 30, at the Pizzitola Center at Brown University. Organized by Rhode Island Students …
(4.22) Head over to the state house today for the Rhode Island March for Science. On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, scientists and science enthusiasts around the globe, including 394 satellite marches in every major US city and 37 other countries, will gather and march in the name of science. We stand together to champion …
(2.16) Biology professor Kenneth R. Miller will deliver a lecture titled “Science Denial: from Anti-Vaxers and Climate ‘Skeptics’ to the Ark Park — Why it Continues and Why it Matters,” as part of the Reaffirming University Values series. Miller’s research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 60 scientific papers and …
(3.19) As part of Brain Awareness Week — a global initiative aimed at elevating awareness of the scientific breakthroughs in the field of brain and nervous system research — the Brown Brain Bee and the Cure Alliance for Mental Illness will be hosting the first annual Brain Fair. Ever wonder how we learn and remember? …
But this whole religion thing is no longer serving humanity very well. Time for the Second Enlightenment! We know what causes thunder now. Science is so much more interesting than religion. Who would you rather sit next to at dinner — Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Bishop Tobin? (Tyson is playing Providence in September!) Go here …
(2.11) And use your brain. Princeton and Brown University professors will take part in a Veritas Forum titled “Does Science Point to Atheism?” With science offering facts on almost every aspect of life, it leads some to wonder if there is any room for religion. Professors will discuss the relationship between the two and how …
(5.17) Are we living in a supersymmetrical universe or a chaotic multiverse? Head over to the Cable Car Cinema Saturday when science documentary Particle Fever will be followed by a Q&A with Brown University Professor Greg Landsberg, CMS Experiment Physics Coordinator at the time of the Higgs boson discovery. Calling it “enormously suspenseful” The New …
Crank up the Zeiss! The Meridian Project is pleased to announce the premiere of “Dark Matter” a multimedia performance exploring cutting edge research in dark matter detection. Dr. Jeremy Chapman, a recent graduate of Brown University’s Particle Astrophysics Group, will discuss the latest developments in dark matter research in combination with new music written and …
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(4.15) . . . early Tuesday morning, April 15th. The Brown University Ladd Observatory has been testing its camera in anticipation of the event resulting in this impressive image. They will not be open to the public during the early morning event, but will be open 8pm to 10pm, Tuesday night, weather permitting. Tuesday’s total …
How American. But the folks over at Sky & Telescope have a different take on all this supermoon business. The term “supermoon” describes the full or new moon when it’s at perigee, or less than 223,000 miles from Earth. But S&T suggests we’re going a little overboard. Beware the continuing media hype about supermoons. The …
The AS220 Labs has a set of workshops coming up for those wanting to “Learn how to use an Arduino” including: intro to soldering; build a Physical Pixel or Ambient Orb project; and Robots! Other upcoming lab courses feature 3D Modeling, Intro to the Laser Cutter, Intro to Letterpress, and more. And speaking of robots, …
Happy news for Providence for once — infusion of cash coming our way. First: Nabsys, a technology company working on “advances in life sciences and healthcare through strategic deployment of a novel positional sequencing platform with broad applicability for DNA analysis” will get an infusion of cash from three venture capital firms. According to today’s …