{"id":508920,"date":"2026-10-27T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508920\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:14:18","slug":"csulb-scientists-trade-lectures-for-liquid-nitrogen-at-science-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508920\/","title":{"rendered":"CSULB scientists trade lectures for liquid nitrogen at Science LIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\">Students from the\u00a0Stingray and Butterfly Biomechanics (STABB) Lab showed off stingray barbs and\u00a0fielded questions from future beachgoers.\u00a0Physics students and faculty chilled a superconductor with liquid nitrogen as kids in safety goggles watched the fog roll out.\u00a0At the Beat the Virus table, virology students helped show how ordinary hand soap tears viruses apart. The Chemistry in the Kitchen station illustrated how red cabbage juice dripped into cups will turn a white power, such as baking soda, from white to pink, then to blue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-7.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A person in a face shield pours liquid nitrogen as children watch.\" title=\"Hall of Science lab demonstration\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-12.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A person guides a child adding powder to a cup.\" title=\"Kitchen chemistry station, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-20.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A person helps two children with clay models.\" title=\"College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics hands-on activity\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-17.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A child studies a mounted weasel.\" title=\"CSULB Mammal Lab table\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The shark and marine labs were open for tours, and the Mammal Lab\u2019s ever-popular museum collections room displayed hundreds of skeletons, skulls, pelts and taxidermy mounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Out on the plaza, Astronomy Professor Joel Zinn and students aimed solar telescopes at the sky \u2014 a daytime preview of <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW45263235 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/physics-astronomy\/article\/nights-at-the-observatory\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nights at the Observatory<\/a>, held every Tuesday while classes are in session. A girl in a party dress, hoisted up by her father, pressed her eye to the lens and grinned at the sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-4.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A person touches a glowing plasma ball.\" title=\"Physics demonstration, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-10.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A person holds two animal skulls near a skeleton display as children explore.\" title=\"Display at Science LIVE!\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-15.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A mounted coyote stands on a lab table.\" title=\"Mammal Lab specimen display\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Science Live-1.JPG\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" alt=\"A child looks through a telescope as an adult holds her up.\" title=\"Professor Joel Zinn at a Science LIVE! viewing station\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from the\u00a0Stingray and Butterfly Biomechanics (STABB) Lab showed off stingray barbs and\u00a0fielded questions from future beachgoers.\u00a0Physics students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1818,1820,7,1815,1821,1822,1819,131,133,132,1817,1816],"class_list":["post-508920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-49ers","tag-cal-state","tag-california","tag-college","tag-csu","tag-csulb","tag-dirtbags","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}