If you’re looking for something fun and unique to sweeten your Valentines’ plans join me, Miss Cate, for Sweet Science, Saturday Feb. 11th, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.. This is the tastiest workshop in our Family Science Series!

Cooking/baking is one of the most common place instances of chemistry. What ingredient keeps your cookies together? Why does a cake rise? What’s the science behind one of my personal weaknesses, sugar? The whole family will enjoy the experiments and sweet samples in this workshop. You might even learn some sweet science that you can share with your sweetheart. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) This is a Valentine’s Day treat you'll wanna sample.

Join us as we explore the science of cakes, candy and cookies! This class is open to all ages. The cost is $20 ($15 for Members) per person and $15 ($12 for Members) per person for a group of 4 or more. Please book your reservation in advance by calling (314) 289-4424.

For all of you tech savvy people out there, I think this story will interest you! I was browsing Popular Science and found their list of 2012’s hottest gadgets. I couldn’t help but to get totally distracted from whatever it was I was suppose to be doing. Therefore, I’m offering you the same privilege to be completely distracted by these cool gadgets. My favorite was the 3D scanner. I would LOVE to have one of those just see how it works! Check out these cool gadgets and have fun!

Of course I have to wonder how Popular Science came up with the best gadgets of 2012 even though we are just now finishing the first month of the year.... Oh well, these things are still cool! Keep an eye out for these products and as the year goes on I’m sure that we see technology reach a whole new level of awesome!

When I first joined up with ScienceOffCenter, my first blog post was about the weird creatures called axolotls. . We have them here at the St. Louis Science Center in the Life Science Lab as expamples of different lab animals.

When the Life Science Lab raised their axolotls they were kind enough to let me take home not one but TWO little axolotls. Well they grew up and turns out I had a male a female. Come New Years Eve I had an interesting surprise waiting for me. They laid eggs!

I took this opportunity to observe and photograph the development of these amazing creatures. It was so cool to watch them mature from tiny eggs that looked like dark balls, into the baby axolotls they are now. I thought it only appropriate to share this experience with you! Check out some of these pictures and let me know what you think! There are of coures PLENTY more where that came from.

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