Daily News for Kids with Big Brain

Today on BigBrain, we visit kid-friendly museum programs from August 16: Smithsonian Spark!Lab, where children practiced inventing; a New York State Museum STEAM Sunday about squishy circuits; and a Crocker Art Museum family gallery adventure in Sacramento. A warm, safe episode about curiosity, creativity, and learning by doing.

A warm, kid-friendly space news episode about an International Space Station communications upgrade, NASA’s safe livestream coverage of a total solar eclipse, and the Roman Space Telescope getting fueled for a late-August launch preparation step.

In this warm kids’ news episode, BigBrain visits three museum learning events: an early World Elephant Day play date at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a Bell Museum event showing how scientists prepare natural history specimens, and a Smithsonian Jazz Afternoon featuring instruments, musicians, and pop-up jam sessions.

In this warm kids-and-family news episode, we visit museums and learning spaces where families explored BugFest in Utah, STEAM art in San Antonio, light-up circuits in Reno, Great Lakes conservation, seal science, and a planetarium show about the atoms that connect us to the stars.

In this warm, kid-friendly BigBrain News episode, we explore three science stories anchored to NASA sources: teens learning to use TEMPO satellite data to study local air quality, astronauts completing an August 6 spacewalk to prepare solar array upgrades on the International Space Station, and satellite observations of tides at Germany’s Elbe River estuary.

In this warm kids’ news episode, BigBrain explores astronaut life aboard the International Space Station, a Smithsonian rainforest habitat play date, and a Colorado museum program where children connect art with history.

In this warm kids’ news episode, BigBrain explores astronaut life aboard the International Space Station, a Smithsonian rainforest habitat play date, and a Colorado museum program where children connect art with history.

Today on BigBrain, we wrap up the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, visit young softball and baseball players at World Series tournaments, look up with a family planetarium program, and explore how fossils help us understand dinosaurs.

In this warm kids-and-family news episode, BigBrain looks at NASA’s 18 early-stage future technology concepts, explains the August 12 total solar eclipse and how to watch safely, and visits a conference where educators explored hands-on technology fields like AI, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and energy.

Today on BigBrain, kids and families learn how NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars for a gravity assist, how scientists formally described a small orange-marked reef fish from Indonesia, and how a flexible wearable patch could someday make health monitoring simpler.