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Even when we’re staying safe at home during a pandemic, science never stops. Check out your favorite posts from Science Beyond the Center to explore Science Center exhibits from behind the scenes, take in an amazing view, or learn something new from a scientist or astronaut. If you're helping kids learn from home, you can visit us here online here to continue your child's Stuck at Home Science learning with our easy-to-follow activities too. We'll be adding more great posts all the time, so check back often. Come on in—the science is fine!

An artist's impression of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy
Ever Wonder? / December 9th, 2020

...why our galaxy is a spiral?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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Photo of Matthew Frost, roboticist and cognizant engineer at NASA JPL.
Ever Wonder? / November 25th, 2020

...how to build robots that go to space?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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Mission Specialist Drew Feustel performs an experiment on the International Space Station.
AirSpace / November 18th, 2020

Astronaut Interviews: Drew Feustel

Mission specialist Drew Feustel recounts his career path from community college to orbit and explains how going to space can really make you appreciate Earth.

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Educator Elaine holds a purple paper plane in front of the Science Center's A-12 trainer aircraft
AirSpace / November 13th, 2020

Planes with Elaine!

Educator Elaine shows how to make some awesome paper airplanes, and at the same time shares a little about how real planes fly!

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Photo of Ayanna Howard, roboticist, professor, director of the HumAnS Lab, and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
Ever Wonder? / November 11th, 2020

...if robots can be biased?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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daniel-bursch
AirSpace / November 4th, 2020

Astronaut Interview: Daniel Bursch

Did you ever think that being an astronaut would feel like being on Star Trek's starship Enterprise? According to mission specialist and ISS astronaut Dan Bursch, it does!

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Photo of Maja Matarić, a roboticist and a distinguished professor of computer science, neuroscience, and pediatrics at USC.
Ever Wonder? / October 28th, 2020

...if robots can have personalities?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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Photo of Kirstin Petersen, roboticist and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University.
Ever Wonder? / October 14th, 2020

...how can robots work together?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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Astronaut Kate Rubins loads tissue samples into a freezer on the International Space Station.
AirSpace / October 2nd, 2020

Science in Space

Discover space experiments on fire, surface tension, neuroscience and more in this video featuring interviews with astronauts and footage of science on orbit.

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A close-up of a Gila monster's face and front left leg
Ever Wonder? / September 30th, 2020

...how keepers relate to animals?

An Ever Wonder? podcast from the California Science Center

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