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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
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Shelley Smith, the Brewing Innovation Engineer at Sam Adams, talks about the science that goes into crafting a flawless pint.
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Talia from our planetarium answers some of the most common questions that museum visitors ask about the Earth-Moon-Sun system, covering everything from Moon phases to eclipses.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Bats! Owls! Creepy-crawlies! For Halloween, we asked Liz from our Live Animal Care Center some of the best questions we've heard at the museum about spooky species.
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
We asked two MIT graduate students in chemistry, Jessica Beard and Angela Lee, how they got into science and what they are looking forward to in the future.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
We chat with Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri from the University of Wisconsin-Madison about his decades of experience creating safe, fun, and illuminating chemical experiments.
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Social and psychiatric epidemiologist Dr. Erin Dunn explains how stressful events leave a permanent record on our teeth and how we can potentially use our molars and canines to predict future mental health.
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Benjamin Clark and Saikat Basu from Facebook tell us about their initiative to help identify roads using satellite images and deep learning.
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
How do you drive a rover from 40 million miles away? In part two of our conversation, we asked NASA engineer Rich Rieber about how the newest robot to explore Mars will get around.
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Part two of our look at Perseverance, the next Mars rover. We asked NASA engineer Rich Rieber what the mission hopes to accomplish on the red planet - searching for signs of ancient life, analyzing the geology of Mars, and even testing out a small helicopter.
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
NASA's newest rover is on its way to Mars. We asked engineer David Way, who designed the landing system, how it will touch down safely on the red planet.