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Discovery Space is bringing marine life to State College this summer. The science center's exhibit will feature aquatic animals and marine ecosystems. The exhibit will feature a 100-gallon saltwater tank, which will hold a variety of fish species, shrimp, sea snails and sea stars, and it will offer guests a view of the aquarium in a “lab-like setting,” according to the center. The marine life educator at Discovery Space, Devin Hennigan will be in charge of looking after the exhibit. Hennigan said the marine life exhibit will evolve over the next few months and events will be planned...

A Boalsburg-based company’s financial support has allowed Discovery Space to purchase an exhibit was formerly part of a traveling exhibition that visited science centers around the world. EnergyCAP LLC made a “generous donation,” for Discovery Space, 1224 N. Atherton St., to permanently acquire the Color Play exhibit, according to a news release from the nonprofit interactive children’s science center. Color Play, when fully refurbished, will provide ways for kids and adults to play with the physics of color. “It will help visitors take a scientific approach to color by examining ...

Bonnie Dunbar: Five-time space hero was inspired by Dundonian grandfather © Supplied Dr Bonnie Dunbar successfully completed five Space Shuttle missions during her time with NASA. Bonnie Dunbar was inspired to reach for the stars by her Dundonian grandfather and went on to become a five-time space hero. Only a handful of other American astronauts have heard the countdown to lift-off from the inside of a spacecraft more often than she has. Dr Dunbar, 72, worked for 27 years at NASA, successfully completing five Shuttle missions, logging 1,208 hours of space flight and nearly 800 orbits of the...

Here is a list of events occurring in State College this weekend. Weekend Weather forecast: April 1-4 Though Penn State welcomed spring weather these past few weekends, the temperature is scheduled to go down to a striking 36 degrees Thursday. However, as the weekend progresses, expect the sun to come back out on Sunday — providing a beautiful day of sunny and warm weather. Here’s what to expect for this weekend’s weather as of Wednesday night, via Accuweather. Thursday Beginning Thursday, we can expect partly sunny weather with a 60% chance of rain. There may even be a chance ...

Portable handwashing station wins Life-Enhancer of the Year: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021 Responding swiftly to a public health emergency, Lagos designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello devised a portable, modular handwashing station that draws on local materials and manufacturing expertise WINNER ‘For the community by the community’ portable handwashing station, by NMBello Studio When the first wave of the pandemic compelled countries around the world to shut their borders, Nifemi Marcus-Bello was in Kigali, Rwanda, designing furniture for the Rwanda Institute of Conservation Agriculture as a consu...