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How to Train Your Robot book cover in which three students are examining a robot vacuum cleaner.
February 18, 2021

How To Train Your Robot

How To Train Your Robot by Blooma Goldberg, Ken Goldberg, and Ashley Chase, illustrated by D. Clegg (with support from…

Jennifer Doudna speaking at an event at The Lawrence Hall of Science
October 9, 2020

UC Berkeley Biochemist Dr. Jennifer Dounda Wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UC Berkeley Biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing the prize with Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier,…

A young person sits in the forest reading
August 20, 2020

BEETLES & BaySci Host Virtual Open Space Conference

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lawrence Hall of Science researchers and educators have felt gravely concerned about its…

Sunstones at The Lawrence
June 10, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic could slash environmental, outdoor science education programs in half nationwide

For immediate release June 10, 2020 Study finds 11 million children at risk of losing access to the educational and…

Children playing on the DNA sculpture at the Lawrence
May 1, 2020

Supporting Learning at Home

Like many of our members and visitors, The Lawrence Hall of Science staff are working at home under California’s shelter-in-place…

Two children and a staff member are working together during a science activity.
March 16, 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates

The Lawrence Hall of Science is temporarily closed to the public due to the Bay Area Shelter-in-Place order to help…