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We hear amazing questions in the exhibit halls of the Museum of Science, Boston. Do woodpeckers get headaches? How many colors are in the rainbow? Who gets to drive the Mars rovers? Pulsar features short interviews with our education staff along with scientists, engineers, and experts from around the world in order to find the answers.
Episodes

Jan 4, 2021
Jan 4, 2021
10 min
We ask Caity from our planetarium all about stars that run out of fuel and go supernova in explosions that can be seen clear across the universe.

Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020
10 min
How do we know how sight first evolved if eyes don't fossilize? For some ancient organisms, they do! Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann shares her research on trilobite fossils from nearly half a billion years ago that tell us about the origins of vision.

Dec 21, 2020
Dec 21, 2020
13 min
We ask one of our animal keepers, Christa, all about our Cotton-Top Tamarin monkeys and how the Museum of Science is participating in the effort to conserve this critically endangered species.

Dec 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
12 min
Biomedical Engineer Dr. Parag Gad tells us about a noninvasive technique that can help paralyzed patients regain the use of their extremities as well as other systems of the body.

Dec 7, 2020
Dec 7, 2020
11 min
Physicist Dr. Billy Hubbard tells us how designing the world's smallest 'refrigerator', a thousand times thinner than a human hair, may lead to more efficient cooling of scientific instruments.

Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020
9 min
We ask Shilpa Lawande, a Data Engineer at Facebook Boston, all about data and its impact on our lives.

Nov 27, 2020
Nov 27, 2020
14 min
We answer all of your questions about how far away things are from Earth, from the Moon to the very edge of existence, and also discover how we know the distance to objects in space.

Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020
10 min
We chat with Akshita Rao, an undergraduate at Tufts University, about her biomedical engineering research on the human heart.

Nov 17, 2020
Nov 17, 2020
11 min
We chat with Becca, one of our museum educators, about the driving factors behind the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 2020
11 min
Harvard's Dr. Pia Sorensen tells us about her new book, Science and Cooking, and answers your questions about chemistry, physics, and biology in the kitchen.
