Science Matters

Many institutions around the world are examining their own history and role in systemic racism, including science. Medical scientists often need to reference skin conditions and symptoms on a myriad of skin tones

Entomologist, Dr. Arthur Evans discusses the Insect Survey he is currently conducting within the James River Park System. An understanding of the insect fauna is key to conservation planning and natural resource management of the James River Park System.

Explore the Solar System with NASA interns Lenore Miller, Sarah Adewumi, and Jacob Wologo. Learn ways to scale distances between objects in the solar system and all about the power of the sun. Create a solar oven and a working paper plate sundial.

These are undeniably stressful times. Managing that stress is a crucial part of how we will all get through this. We often hear about yoga and meditation as great ways to reduce stress, but do these eastern practices really work or is it just a hippie-urban legend? Does yoga actually reduce stress?

In order to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic scientists are asking new questions like which masks work the best to limit airborne transmission of the virus? Mask efficacy, or how well masks work to block large droplets and aerosols produced when talking, singing, or breathing, has been a hot topic recently.

Join Biochemist and Miss America 202, Camille Schrier, as she uses her kitchen as her laboratory to explore the science of catalysts and decomposition. Recreate the foamy fun of "Elephant's Toothpaste" which was her winning demonstration. Developed for grades 6-10.

Nothing stops 470 Henrico County Public School students from helping the Chesapeake Bay and James River Watersheds. Now they challenge all of us to develop an action plan!

What’s got eyes, butts, and cascading mental implications? This week’s science story! As we continue to be socially distanced from one another, it feels like nearly any form of connection is welcome at this point. Simply making eye contact actually has a myriad of benefits for us humans, but first…let’s chat about some related but very different eye contact research.

Tracking the health of the world’s 10,000+ bird species is an immense challenge. Hundreds of thousands of people are needed to report what they see in backyards, neighborhoods, and wild places around the world. Two critical components of this work are who’s doing it and how well are they doing it. Learn more about this topic and talk with two scientific thinkers on August 31.

As hurricane season continues to move forward we see continue to see more reports about tropical storms. We recently just saw a lot of news about a powerful storm that moved up the East coast and climate experts are telling us the season's just getting started.