The Museum of Science, Boston to Open State-of-the-Art William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common on October 10, 2026 - Business Wire

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Museum of Science on Saturday celebrated the opening of its new 10,000-square-foot civic venue, the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common. The celebration featured a series of events, including hands-on, interactive experiences and a “live” dinosaur as part of the Prehistoric Playground program. The Bloomberg Public Science Common will offer an exciting lineup of programming, conversations and immersive experiences this fall designed to inspire a lifelong love of science. A calendar of upcoming special programming can be found here including one-night events with Trevor Noah, Jacob Collier, and Mark Rober: https://www.mos.org/bloomberg-public-science-common-events (Copyright (c) 2026 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.