Museum of Science

Have you ever seen mouthwash in action? 🦷🧪 Quinten Geldhof, also known as Microhobbyist, explains what happens to your mouth’s bacterial ecosystem when antiseptic mouthwash hits. #Science #Microbes #OralHygiene #Microscope #Microscopy

NASA’s moon base plans just got a huge update! 🌕🚀🧪 NASA has announced that their long term plan to build up a permanent presence near the lunar south pole is moving forward with three robotic landers!

The only blue moon of 2026 is rising on May 31st! 🌕🧪 Although this is called a “Blue Moon”, it won't actually be blue. This celestial event occurs when a second full moon rises in a single calendar month. #BlueMoon #Astronomy #Space #Lunar #Science

Can you pop a balloon when it is inside another balloon? 🎈🧪 @alexdainis.bsky.social explains how black balloons absorb incoming light and heat up faster, while white balloons reflect light or let it pass through, helping them stay cooler. #ScienceExperiment #Science #Heat #STEM #ScienceDemo

Your DNA could influence how doctors prescribe blood thinners.🧪 #Genetics #Neanderthal #SvantePaabo #DNA #Science

The government just dropped classified UFO documents, and the internet is losing its mind. 🛸🧪 Scientists are pumping the brakes though: these newly released files, now officially dubbed UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), contain little more than fuzzy images and unverified accounts.

Millions of strange, sparkly creatures are washing up on California beaches right now. 🪼🧪 Meet “Velella velella”, aka "by the wind sailors": a colony of tiny hydrozoans that link together like Legos to form a single floating organism, steered across the ocean by a small sail that catches the wind.

You can predict how many segments are inside a citrus fruit. 🍊🍋‍🟩🧪 @alexdainis.bsky.social explains how citrus fruits develop from the ovaries of citrus flowers. #Citrus #Biology #ScienceExperiment #Fruits #Science

Are we alone in the universe? @mitpress.bsky.social Kavli Institute scientist Moritz Guenther is studying how planets form around distant stars, investigating whether exoplanets have the right temperatures, atmospheres, and water to support life. 🧪 #Space #SolarSystem #Universe #Science

Finding another Earth isn’t easy, it’s a cosmic challenge. 🌍 Avi Shporer, a research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute, studies how astronomers detect planets beyond our solar system. #Space #Earth #Exoplanets #Universe #Galaxy #Science

Astronomers have found the building blocks of life in space! 🧬🧪 @erikahamden.bsky.social‬ explains how scientists detect amino acids like tryptophan in meteorites, asteroids, and even diffuse clouds of gas between stars. #Space #Universe #Astronomy #STEM #Science

You can see up to 18 shooting stars per hour this April! 🌠🧪 The Lyrid Meteor Shower begins April 14, and peaks overnight April 21 to 22. This shower occurs when Earth moves through a stream of debris left behind by Comet Thatcher. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #MeteorShower #Science

What does a black hole sound like? 🎤🎶🧪 Astrophysicist @erikahamden.bsky.social breaks down how the supermassive black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster releases energy into the surrounding hot gas, generating enormous pressure waves that ripple through the cluster.

Sharks are testing positive for cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers?! 🦈🧪 A scientific collaboration in the Bahamas found these substances in Caribbean reef sharks, nurse sharks, and lemon sharks off the Bahamas.

The Artemis II crew is home. 🌏🚀🧪 During NASA’s 10-day Artemis II mission, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen became the first humans since 1972 to leave Earth orbit and enter lunar space.

NASA Artemis II's image of Earthset is already changing the way we see our world. 🌍 #Astronaut #Space #Artemis #Moon #Science

What did the moment of the historic NASA Artemis II crew announcement feel like for astronaut Christina Hammock Koch? Alex Dainis was at the Johnson Space Center to find out. 🧪 #Artemis #Astronauts #Moon #Space #Science

Why do we feed cells pink juice in the lab? 🧃🦠🧪 Marie, also known as Lab Skills Academy, breaks down how cell culture media delivers the nutrients, sugars, salts, and amino acids cells need to stay alive and grow. #BioTech #Cells #Biology #CellCulture #Science

For the first time in over 50 years, humans have seen the far side of the Moon! 🌑🧪 NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby last night. We never see that side from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked. #NASA #Artemis #Space #Moon #Science

Artemis II has left Earth’s orbit and is headed to the Moon! 🚀🧪 With its trans-lunar injection burn, Orion fired its engine to leave Earth orbit and enter the precise path that will carry the crew toward a lunar flyby. #Artemis #Space #NASA #Astronaut #Science

We’re remembering the trailblazing Jane Goodall on her birthday today. Happy birthday to Jane Goodall! 🐒🌱🧪 #JaneGoodall #ClimateChange #Environment #WomenInSTEM #Science

The Artemis II crew are now orbiting Earth! 🚀 NASA’s Artemis II crew is currently orbiting Earth, kicking off a full day of critical tests aboard their Orion spacecraft. The team is checking every major system while also performing a proximity operations demo, using their rocket’s ...