science talk for families

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, will explore the magic of light and color in this Science Talk for Families event.

Richard Schwartz, Member (2003–04) in the School of Mathematics and the Chancellor’s Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, will talk about really large numbers, as well as the different sizes of infinity and the different forms of infinite...

Jo Bovy, John N. Bahcall Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences, talks about stars, planets, and gases that make up galaxies, the dark matter that holds them together, and the history of our own Milky Way galaxy in this talk geared for children...

How did the universe begin? Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explains what we know about the Big Bang and explores the mysteries of our universe. This talk is geared for children ages 10 and up.

In this Science for Families talk, Boaz Katz, John N. Bahcall Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences explores stars and supernovae. One of the most striking facts that we know about the cosmos is that most of the chemical elements that ­constitute...

One of the most amazing things we discovered in science is that everything is made of small particles. It's the properties of these molecules, atoms, nuclei, and elementary particles that allow us to answer ­simple questions like: why is grass green...