Pi Day 2026: From Rockets to Cancer Research, Here’s How the Number Pi Is Embedded in Our Lives

The holiday was created in 1988 by Larry Shaw, a physicist at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco.

Space-traveling microbes? An unusual experiment shocked skeptics.

After her initial test run, she cultured a regular sample, as well as the shocked sample so she could compare them side by side.  "I really didn't know what to expect," she told Mashable. "I was like, ...