EXPLORIT Science Center - Weekly Column

Mysteries come in all shapes, styles and situations. Some are deep mysteries while others are right in front of you. Using both evidence and inference, a budding detective can discover that this weekend is their last chance to tackle mysteries at Explorit’s exhibition, “Solving Mysteries with Science.”

You can learn about the differences between evidence and inference just one last time at Explorit. If you have yet to visit this summer exhibition due to a little procrastination on your part, you can still partake in everything this sleuth bearing exhibit can give, like diving into the realms of DNA study, fingerprint analysis, forensic science, chemical analysis, chromatography, botany and animal tracking. This scientific experience is for you if you wish to explore. So stop by this weekend because after Sunday, this exhibition will be gone forever.

The next exhibition, "Figure It Out! Puzzles and Challenges," opens on October 7. Problems can and will be solved in many ways. You will get to tease your brain as you try different approaches to interesting challenges and experiment with real-life problem solving from architecture to engineering.

But for now, get cracking to play detective for a day. What are you waiting for? Mysteries are waiting to be solved. Are you up for your final chance to study rocks and minerals or to sculpt the skin of a model human skull? All these fantastic adventures and others can be yours if you come to Explorit this weekend.

The next meeting of the Astronomy Club will be September 30 at 8 p.m. at Explorit. Host Dennis Smith will discuss what Globular Clusters are and how to observe them. There will be a slide show and then if the weather is clear there will be outside observation of the stars and globular clusters through small and medium telescopes.

Globular clusters are globe-shaped groups of 10,000 to several million stars. They are exciting to see and orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. Imagine a huge "puffball" made of thousands of diamonds against the firmament of black velvet. You will be able to view such wonders tomorrow night.

All stargazers are invited to get a taste of amateur astronomy. To find out more information on the Astronomy Club and other celestial events, please call Explorit at 756-0191.

Explorit Science Center is located at 3141 5th Street in East Davis. The current exhibition is “Solving Mysteries with Science.” Public hours are Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., and Tuesday through Friday from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Explorit Science Center Weekly Column