Brookhaven National Lab Open for 'Summer Sundays'

If you're hanging out in the Long Island, New York area some Sunday this summer and have a hankering for a dose of science fun, stop by the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY for Summer Sundays, beginning July 9 and running through August 20. Run by the U.S. Department of Energy, BNL began as a nuclear-science facility in 1946 and is home to six Nobel Prize winning scientists and three nuclear reactors. Among BNL's 5,300 acre campus, adults and children can learn about invisible light rays, DNA sequencing, and weather forecasting, among other fun and interesting science topics. There are only seven Summer Sundays in all, and each Sunday focuses on a specific topic listed here. In addition, each Sunday, the "Whiz Bang Science Show" (pun intended??) will be performed three times from 10:30 am to 3 p.m. Click here to learn more about the history of Brookhaven National Lab.