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The National Academy of Sciences's Public Engagement Testbed The Koshland Science Museum closed on November 27, 2017. Find out more at labx.org
05/08/2026
🌍 This week’s Friday Findings is doing some serious detective work… just in very unexpected places.
One story traces the rise of an ancient African empire back to a quiet shift in the Nile 🌊
Another looks to Moon dust to rethink where Earth’s water came from 🌕
And the last? Parasites that are… swapping genes?? 🧬
It’s giving: rivers as architects, the Moon as a historian, and microbes behaving badly.
Science is weird. We like it that way.
Boba fails with cold water: It's like glue, but not in a good way. Physics lesson: heat activates molecules! Watch the full episode on YouTube.
Science experiment in the kitchen! Making perfect boba pearls by adjusting water temp. Watch the full episode on YouTube!
04/24/2026
🌌💡🌿 Big universe energy, small human fixes
We mapped millions of galaxies across the universe…
…and down here on Earth, the solution might just be turning off your porch light.
This week’s Friday Findings covers:
🌌 The largest 3D map of the universe ever created
💡 Why birds need us to hit the lights at night
🌿 A massive effort to get water flowing back through the Everglades
Scale: cosmic → local → ecosystem-wide.
Impact: all of it matters.
Making boba at home is more doable than you think.
Follow along as we turn simple ingredients into chewy tapioca pearls, step by step.
Full episode on the science of boba: https://ow.ly/w8UH50YNTxb
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