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After a big meal, you may feel like you could make

After a big meal, you may feel like you could make room for a sweet treat. This is because our brain cells that tell us we're full could also be making us crave sugar!

Neuroscientist Marielle Minère studied how mice would react to a sugar offering after being full from their regular food. The POMC, a bundle of neurons inside of the hypothalamus (the part of the brain that controls hunger) lit up once the mice were shown the sugar after their meal. Minère then studied human brain tissue. Mice and humans have different brains, but this part of the brain is very similar!

Minère calls this a "sugar-craving circuit", and believes that it overrides the "fullness circuit", especially because sugar consumption releases dopamine. We are happy to be eating it! 🍰

Sources: Science & AAAS, Science News Explores

#miSciny #science #funfacts #sciencefacts #SweetTreats #neuroscience

Perfect for little learners — and fun for the wh

Perfect for little learners — and fun for the whole family! 🌟 Join Miss Kerry at the Planetarium this Saturday for this month's storytime. 📖

Tickets for our Star Filled Storytime are $5 per person and can be purchased at miSci.org, or at the front desk the morning of.

#misciny #sciencemuseum #capitalregionny #schenectadyny #storytime #planetarium #kerrytales #stemforkids #familytime

🎬 MEMBER MONDAY is coming soon! We're rolling

🌓First quarter 6/2 ✨The Spring triangle brin

🌓First quarter 6/2

✨The Spring triangle brings attention to bright star Arcturus, but once you've "arced to Arcturus" from the Big Dipper, don’t forget to check out the rest of the constellation that the star sits inside of: Boötes!

There are many versions of Boötes in mythology where he is the Herdsman, the Plowman or the first winemaker. Ahead of him are his dogs in Canes Venetici.

Unseen in Boötes is an interesting area of space called the Boötes void--a rough sphere of almost 330 million lightyears with only 60 galaxies inside instead of the 2000 or so we might expect. These empty regions of space help us picture the structure of the universe!

#miSciny #thisweekinmisky #stargazing #tonightssky #amateurastronomy #capitaldistrictny #misky #sky #springsky #astronomy

There are only two inventions left in miSci's Inve

There are only two inventions left in miSci's Invention Madness exhibit! Which will be voted the best of the capital region? The choice is yours! Visit the Museum this weekend to take your pick, or visit this link here: misci.org/invention-madness-vote

#miSciny #sciencemuseum #schenectadyny #capitalregionny #STEAM #inventionmadness #inventions #exhibit

It might be raining outside- but today at miSci we

It might be raining outside- but today at miSci we're forecasting SCIENCE! 🚀🤖

See the new Science Fiction, Science Future exhibit this weekend and push the limits of your imagination with mind-control, invisibility, robots and more!

We're open today from 11am to 5pm, and the planetarium has shows at 12, 1, and 3! Bring the family on a trip of discovery!

#misciny #capitalregionny #RainyDayFun #sciencemuseum #schenectadyny

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