April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual celebration on April 1, commemorated by practical jokes and hoaxes. The player(s) of the joke(s) or hoax(es) often exposes their action by shouting "April fool(s)" at the recipient(s). The recipient of these actions are called April fools. Mass media can be involved in these pranks that the following […]
Br. Guy Consolmagno will be giving the talk "From Galileo to Laudato Si’" at 7:30 pm (Eastern Time) in the MIT Stata Center, Building 32-155 at 7:30pm on April 3rd.
The General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/65/271 of 7 April 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind, reaffirming the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of […]
Br. Guy Consolmagno will present the talk "Your God is Too Small" as part of the Rev. George V. Coyne, S.J. Annual Lecture at Marquette University, Wisconsin - at 7:00 PM (Central) on April 12th.
Br. Guy Consolmagno will be giving a talk at the Bell Museum Planetarium.
Br. Guy Consolmagno will be giving a talk at the University of St Thomas following 11AM Mass
Br. Guy Consolmagno will give a lecture at the 9th Annual V. Elving Anderson Lecture on Science and Religion at the McNamara Alumni Center
Illustration from the Bibliographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1945. The Royal Society, London. Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS died in 1945, aged 95 (born 29 November 1849). "He was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first […]
Renowned science communicators Br. Guy Consolmagno and Jad Abumrad are presenters at this conference.
First held in 1970, Earth Day is held annually on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union; millions of people in the three countries were exposed to the radiation.
On Girls in ICT Day– marked annually on the fourth Thursday in April – the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is highlighting the need to promote technology career opportunities for girls and women in the world's fastest growing sector.
