Russian Science Day was celebrated at the Lab

On February 10, 2018, Russian Science Day was celebrated in more than 60 cities of Russia and the world at the sites of the “Open Laboratory” scientific and educational event. Moreover, they noted not only the “non-childish questions” of the “Lab” itself, but also a varied additional program that was unique at all sites. Universities and institutes organized tours of laboratories, showed experiments and demonstrations. Schools and other venues screened the best world-class popular science films from the FUNK festival.

The Museum of Cosmonautics hosted a discussion of the book “The Great Space Voyage” by the famous astrophysicist and popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Russian translation of the book was made with the participation of the Open Laboratory project. And in the Mail.Ru Group office there was a large-scale scientific show by Alexey Ivanchenko, head. Physics Laboratory of the Polytechnic Museum. The inventor, co-host of the Galileo program and director of the best sciencetainment show in Russia destroyed myths and misconceptions with fire, electricity, pressure and a sense of humor. A recording of the show is available at openlaba.com . In total, about 30 thousand people took part in the Lab, according to first estimates.

Evgeniy Nasyrov