Science Week
February 12-18, 2026
Science is the act of wondering what's true,
and the quest to find out.
Starting on February 12 (Darwin Day), I post something about science once a day for seven days. It can be something I learned, a personal contemplation, or even a cool link with a quick remark – something about science, nature, or human ingenuity. It's my main "holiday" of the year!
Why celebrate science?
Care to join me?
- Post just once on Darwin Day, or every day that week!
- Use the tag or hashtag #ScienceWeek
- Feel free to link this page so others can find it
- Send me your post, and I'll add it here!
From Science Weeks past
2025
- Day 1 – Watch a nervous system developing
- Day 2 – RainbowSpec: all about rainbows!
- Day 3 – The accidentally-recorded meteorite strike
- Day 4 – From HyperCard to holodecks
- Day 5 – One spider's remarkable web site
- Day 6 – The Voyager 1 debug
- Day 7 – Solar system check
2025 (by Lexie)
2024
- Day 1 – A short and wondrous introduction to genetics
- Day 2 – What was the common idea of the universe 100 years ago?
- Day 3 – Capercaillie companion on the road
- Day 4 – How's your intuition for gravity in space?
- Day 5 – "World's hottest day since records began"
- Day 6 – Now that's personalized hair analysis
- Day 7 – Sticking up for science
2024 (by Sage)
- Day 1 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 1
- Day 2 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 2
- Day 3 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 3
- Day 4 – Living Is Healing: Part 1
- Day 5 – Living Is Healing: Part 2
- Day 6 – Living Is Healing: Part 3
- Day 7 – Living Is Healing: Part 4
2024 (by Lexie)
2023
- Day 1 – A fine feather itself
- Day 2 – Phobos from Mars
- Day 3 – A micro-engineered cancer treatment: cells upon cells
- Day 4 – A word with the Impossible Burger guy
- Day 5 – How much saliva does a cow produce in a day?
- Day 6 – Does a ping-pong ball sink or float in zero gravity?
- Day 7 – Localized entirely without your kitchen
2023 (by Lexie)
- Day 1 – Scientia Potentia Est
- Day 2 – Animal Crossing's Museum: Making Science Part Of Your Daily Play
- Day 3 – The Magic Of Now
- Day 4 – It Came To Me In A Dream
- Day 5 – It's Hard To Be Depressed While Tripping On Psychedelics
- Day 6 – Mars' History May Have Included Life
- Day 7 – Science Is For Everyone
2022
- Day 1 – The tree of life, illustrated!
- Day 2 – Aligning Webb's mirrors
- Day 3 – A tour of the cell
- Day 4 – A recursive vegetable
- Day 5 – Atoms to scale
- Day 6 – How binary is sex?
- Day 7 – Discover the cosmos!
2021
- Day 1 – Evolutionary concestry
- Day 2 – The E-ELT
- Day 3 – Reconstructing the coronavirus
- Day 4 – James Randi and the empirical test
- Day 5 – The path of BepiColombo
- Day 6 – Mario and the future of augmented reality
- Day 7 – Mars Perseverance landing
2020
- Introduction
- Day 1 – Bombadier beetle's defensive melody
- Day 2 – The morning Earth met Neptune
- Day 3 – Decades later, government declares life-saving GMOs “safe”
- Day 4 – A close-up time lapse of the sun boiling away
- Day 5 – Eratosthenes’ calculation
- Day 6 – Microscopic world
- Day 7 – Saturn's moon collection
2019
- Day 1 – Hearing wind on Mars
- Day 2 – Units derived from nature
- Day 3 – Attenborough to world leaders
- Day 4 – No planets to thousands
- Day 5 – Face ID
- Day 6 – "Planetesimal"
- Day 7 – "Don't let's blow it"
2018
- Day 1 – Tree of life reprise
- Day 2 – The Deep Space Network
- Day 3 – Natural camouflage time
- Day 4 – Emily Rosa's energy field experiment
- Day 5 – Seán Doran's orbit of Earth
- Day 6 – The Apple Watch and health studies
- Day 7 – Cassini's final images
2017
- Steve declares Science Week.
- Countdown – "Bill Nye Saves The World"
- Countdown – The south pole of Jupiter
- Countdown – The relative sizes of the stellars
- Day 1 – The tree of life
- Day 2 – Saturn's rings from the Cassini probe
- Day 3 – Genetic modification for the din
- Day 4 – "#ActualLivingScientist" campaign
- Day 5 – "Intelligent Design On Trial"
- Day 6 – The 39 species
- Day 7 – Mr Schwarzenegger on the environment
- Final Day – Checkin' out NASA Goddard
See you on February 12!
And once again: here's to finding things out.
