Natural history

The High Desert Museum will host the community on the evening of Friday, May 27 to celebrate four decades of service to the region. The 40and Community anniversary celebration kicks off at 6:30 p.m., offering the first glimpse of…

The Smithsonian Institution is adopting a new "ethical return policy" that will allow its museums to repatriate objects acquired in a way that might be considered unethical by modern standards.Because the Smithsonian's 21 institutions and…

But Sonja Wild, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany, who was not part of the study, was skeptical the interaction was deliberately informative. It's more plausible that the juveniles were…

BRYAN - The Brazos Natural History Museum is a fun place where you can learn about Texas history and see…

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science has three finalists for its position as executive director. (Robert Browman/Journal) Copyright © 2022 Albuquerque Journal The search for a new…

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A new natural history study that seeks to gather information about the progression of Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) in the absence of treatment is being recruited. The study is led by the GRASP consortium (General Resolution and…

I've always been a big fan of window shopping at airports. Brightly lit stores, fancy shopping bags, people reading labels too long, even ordinary everyday items start to look fancy when sold at the airport. It can't be just me feeling…

The Brazos Valley Natural History Museum in Bryan gives Earth Day a spin BRYAN, Texas — April 22 is a time when many people celebrate the planet by recycling and making the earth a better place, but a group in Bryan is…

Upstate University Medical Hospital has issued a letter of intent to acquire Crouse Health in Syracuse. The proposal would include all of Crouse's inpatient and outpatient services, and rename the Crouse campus as "Upstate Crouse…

ROCK CREEK - Nocturnal creatures, birds and insects will be featured in…

World View wants to take passengers to space in zero-pressure balloons, the American Museum of Natural History is getting a new science center, and don't miss HD Expo + Conference 2022. All that and more in the five…

Gurgaon: A butterfly park will be set up in the area of ​​Aravali Golf Course in Faridabad. The Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS), in conjunction with the Haryana Department of Tourism, is developing the park in an area of ​​half an…

Stock image INQUIRER.net PARIS - When European naturalists traveled to the tropics in the 1800s, they postulated that birds became more colorful closer to the equator - a theory scientists confirmed on Monday using artificial intelligence…

PEOPLE had an appetite for curiosities long before reality TV and social media. A crowd of over 2,000 people gathered for the laying of the cornerstone of the Warrington Museum on September 20, 1855.…

PROVIDENCE — An animal facts booklet, a stuffed giraffe, a city council pin and a copy of the Providence Journal were among dozens of items hidden in a time capsule buried at the Roger Williams Park Zoo on Friday in honor of of its 150th…

Pernel Media has been commissioned by ARTE GEIE to produce a new documentary mini-series on nature and science and a first-rate one-off on the butterfly's extraordinary abilities. Butterflies:…

Whatever the season it's always a good time to plan a holiday in the UK In the summer there are plenty of music festivals, breweries brimming with good vibes and don't even get us started on the perfect villages of postcards awash with…

March 25, 2022 - Recently released data on the effectiveness of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in children 6 months to 6 years old brings good news, even though the effectiveness against the infection is less than 45%, said the Moderna's…

Shep Lupo, 5, with his mother, Mer Lupo, at a rally demanding the removal of the indoor mask mandate for the Los Angeles Unified School District last week.Credit...Caroline Brehman/EPA, via ShutterstockStudents in the Los Angeles Unified…

Imperial College London and SomaLogic to combine research expertise to discover predictive biomarkers for cancer and other diseases The collaboration…

A small and very rare Florida snake bit off more than it could chew recently and was seen dead in a state park with half of its meal still visible. A visitor to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park…

KEY LARGO, Fla. – A rare snake native to Florida has been found dead in a South Florida state park, wildlife officials say. The crowned rim rock snake is a state threatened species typically found in rockland pine and…

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Everyone's favorite giant rocket truck is back in action. Today (March 11), NASA's Tracked Transport Vehicle 2 (CT-2) began to slowly 'crawl' towards the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will…

KING STREET STATION (1906) The architects : Charles Reed and Allen Stem, known for Grand Central Station in New York Building: This station has a 75-meter clock tower inspired by the bell tower of Venice, in Piazza San Marco in…

The Natural History Museum will host Luke Jerram's artwork on Mars to celebrate Mars Day 2022 on March 14.Mars Day, organized by ESERO-UK (the Space Education Office of the United Kingdom), STEM Learning, the European Space Agency and the…

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Excerpt from the January 2022 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. There is a memorable passage in Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951), in which the wandering narrator of the first section of the novel ruminates on his method of…

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The High Desert Museum will kick off spring break with special programs and extended hours from Saturday, March 19 through Sunday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors pay winter rates with summer hours…

Mumbai More than three years after the state government finally declared 16.9 square kilometers of Thane Creek as a protected area under the Wildlife Protection Act (1972), and more than a year after the forest department filed a 10-year…

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Lila Higgins grew up playing with snails and slugs in her garden in England. Now she's being paid to do so at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA) as a community science officer. And she wants you to play too. “We want…

A microburst is an incredible but very dangerous phenomenon associated with thunderstorms. These localized columns of air suddenly erupt from the bottom of storm clouds. More than just random bouts of rain and high winds, they are…

Guwahati: The Indian Army now has a gecko named after it. An Assam herpetologist, Jayaditya Purkayastha, has named a new species of bent-toed gecko, which was found at a military station, after the Indian army. The new Meghalaya…

A surfer carries his board through the water next to a…

Carnegie Hill, Manhattan The Gatsby, built in 1924, stands in a historic neighborhood one block from Central Park. This four-bedroom condo, renovated and currently owned by James de Givenchy, a descendant of the French fashion house, and…

​Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - This week, the US Department of Agriculture funded $1.26 million in work that will protect Pennsylvania's agricultural imports, exports and domestic products from pests and disease threats. The federal funding…

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will construct seven buildings of 23 floors each to rehabilitate Project Affected People (PAPs) by the ambitious Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project. The Mumbai civic body will…

My TikTok feed has only ever touched on the literary subgenre of BookTok. I get a book recommendation once a month, at most. But for some reason, I get a disproportionate amount of JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" hating…

From things to do with the kids to events that support local businesses and creators - Community Calendar is your weekly listing of community events throughout the Las Vegas area.Looking for shows or other entertainment events on the Las…

David Taylor, Assistant Professor of Sustainability Studies at Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), will present "Paddling Around Paumanok: A Kayak Trip Around Long…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Rocks, cliff faces, quarries dug into the earth. Not much for most of us to watch, but for paleontologist Andrew Knoll they're beaming with meaning, telling a story he says is far grander and packed with more…

Express press service NAGAPATTINAM: The annual two-day bird count kicked off Friday at the Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary in the district, with dozens of students, officials and researchers taking part.…

Author Stephanie Land will join the LA Times Book Club on January 25 to discuss her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive."Land's book club conversation with Times reporter Paloma Esquivel will be livestreamed at…

The cause of the recent landslide that pushed a Bellevue home off its foundation this week is not yet known. But the regularity with which homes and lives are lost in landslides in Washington is undeniable.It is the nature of the…

AAs a historian of science, I am interested in determining who gets the credit for scientific discoveries and why. Unfortunately, credit often goes to the powerful and connected, not the people who actually do the work.…

A team of researchers has discovered jumping behavior that's entirely new to insect larvae, and there's evidence it happens in a range of species - we just haven't noticed it before. The previously unrecorded…

Netflix Pairs stranger things producer Shawn Levy and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight for a 4-episode limited drama series. The duo are working on the adaptation of the World War II novel All the light we can't see which comes from…

Camera traps at the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary showed the presence of around 20 mammals, while an ornithological survey conducted on Saturday counted around 45 species of birds. The sanctuary's mammals include five leopards that mainly…

Nearly $200 million in federal grants have been pumped into the coffers of local independent arts organizations, which has gone a long way in saving the cultural heritage of San Diego County, perhaps the hardest hit area in the…

January 12, 2022, London: Ericsson was today named EE Network Partner for The Green Planet AR Experience, powered by EE 5G. Using augmented reality, The Green Planet AR Experience - inspired by The Natural History Unit's…

By DANICA KIRKA LONDON (AP) - At least there's Kate. The Duchess of Cambridge, who turns 40 on Sunday, has become the reliable British royal. After Prince Harry and Meghan's stormy…

FARGO - A private local organization donated $ 225,000 to the Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum's effort, which was the first big boost in its efforts to develop the facility.The organization wanted to remain anonymous, but…

Ken Baker, Ph.D.According to my writing partner, Dictionary.com, one definition of medley is "any mixture, especially of unrelated objects, subjects, etc."So a potpourri, today, of natural history goodies from 2021. Just a few new research…

Nature abounds in Utah. We pride ourselves on having "The Biggest Snow on Earth", sharing our five beautiful national parks, enjoying mountain biking trails just minutes from downtown Salt Lake City and being proud of our museum.…

(CNN) - Right in the middle of the Qatari Peninsula, a large chasm suddenly opens into the rocky desert, plunging about 100 meters into the ground.It's an awesome sight whether you're standing upstairs or downstairs.This is Musfur, a…

Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous research. The object is very far from its host star - over 1,600 times farther than Earth from the Sun - and it is believed to be a…

Ray Cox Special at the Roanoke Times The water of love at the bottom of the earthBut there is no water here to findWater has often flowed through the stories…

Express news service CHENNAI: As the annual migration of Arctic birds begins to Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary at Kodiyakarai in Nagapattinam, the state forestry department has scheduled its annual…

What new measures are planned in England? The Prime Minister is considering three options to curb the spread of Omicron. The least restrictive would be to ask the public to limit social diversity, without legal application. This…

New Delhi: One of the two nurseries at Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary is going through a eureka moment. After much anticipation, permutation and combining botanical facts, one of two seeds obtained from a Guggal plant (Commiphora…

PHOTOS BY GARRY BRANDENBURG - It's called an irruption according to bird enthusiasts. It is the sudden appearance of species that usually migrate short distances at most, but sometimes move south in large numbers. The reason is not well…

NEW YORK & IRVINE, Calif .-- (BUSINESS WIRE) - December 16, 2021--Discovery, Inc. and VIZIO today…

Lynda Carter strikes famous Wonder Woman pose as she attends CNN Heroes: All-Star Tribute in New York CityBy Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Posted: 9:36 p.m. EST, December 12, 2021 | Update: 9:36 p.m. EST,…

Mumbai An ongoing study by the Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) - funded by the Mangrove Foundation of the state forestry department - has given researchers key information about the biodiversity of the…

Navi Mumbai: Acknowledging concerns from environmentalists over the destruction of NRI and TS Chanakya wetlands in Nerul for a golf course, the Center called on the state's environment department to take action "as a matter of priority."…

The ship His Majesty's Cutter (HMC) Mermaid is best known for its connection to a huge boab tree in a remote bay in Western Australia, but its voyages two centuries ago are an intriguing tale of discoveries, mistakes and mysteries.Key…

Mariaelena Huambachano (left) and Chie Sakakibara Two Leading Scholars in Global Indigenous Environmental Studies Join Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Program at College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School of Citizenship…

Wildlife photographer of the year 2021, winner of the Grand Title of France with his image "Creation" was Laurent Ballesta CREDIT: Laurent Ballesta Submitted by the Natural History MuseumThe highlights of the!--kg-card-end:>!--kg-card-begin:>…

MISSOURI - Missouri is not known for dinosaurs - only a handful of fossils have been discovered in Show-Me State - but paleontologists say they have unearthed four new skeletons at a Bollinger County site that could rewrite the natural…

November is always a dark and humid month, but it offers its own surprises, not the least of which is the good weather. There is something about the incongruity of the long shadows and the hot air that makes each day a personal gift.In…

The results of a preliminary observational study revealed a high use of antiepileptic drugs, a significant delay in adaptive functioning and a consequent impact on communication and socialization in young children with Dravet syndrome,…

Former White House Coronavirus Response Team member Dr Scott Atlas claimed on Sunday that "'science has become politicized', adding that internal politics on the ground are 'destructive' and 'it there is no transparency ". He went on to…

Mounds of dirt lay in front of Joshua Manley on his first day as director of the Ninety-six - 245 Years of…

Enrollment in a clinical trial testing NGN-101 - an experimental gene therapy for CLN5, a type of Batten disease in late childhood - is expected to begin early next year at the University of Rochester Medical Center ( URMC). "This trial…

An avid hunter transforms into an advocate of wildlife, lays the groundwork for a branch of science to thrive in India, and continues to pocket Padmabhushan and Padmavibhushan for his work. This is the story of Dr Salim Ali,…

Next summer's Outdoor Athletics World Championships marathon route is both a nod to the history of running in Eugene-Springfield, as well as a showcase of natural beauty of the region.It also has the potential to be very fast. On Wednesday…

Some New Yorkers kissed loved ones for the first time in nearly 20 months on Monday after the Biden administration lifted foreign travel bans put in place in response to the pandemic. Shortly after their flights landed at John F.…

Last year, the Oxford Christmas Lights Festival shifted its focus from the city center to local neighborhoods and this will continue this year in four centers across the city. Here we take a look at the downtown…

Stuck in a narrow crevice about 150 feet underground in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, Becca Peixotto squeezed between rock faces to make her way around a bend. Inch by inch, she squirmed in the winding passage, almost turning…

Bengaluru / Mangaluru: Researchers and herpetologists have discovered a species of Kukri snake, Oligodon churahensis, in Himachal Pradesh.The team that worked on the discovery included Zeeshan A Mirza the National Center for Biological…

By Emily Stone Naturalist / Director of Education, Cable Natural History Museum Did little bees come to your porch last weekend looking for a sweet snack? How did you treat them? Did you smile and coo at their costumes? Wiggle your!-->…

There is a new member of the "one name club", that elite group of people famous enough to go without last names. To Madonna, to Elvis, to Prince, to Beyoncé, we can now add "Greta". The 18-year-old…

A collection of local organizations working together under the name Greater Victoria NatureHood have won a national conservation award for their efforts as stewards of the environment. Each year, Nature Canada recognizes…

WASHINGTON - Congressman Bruce Westerman, R-AR4, attended the unveiling of the Berns Quartz at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the largest quartz crystal specimen ever on display to the public on Wednesday. He…

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I had a visitor this week. It was a young porcupine try to find a comfortable place to protect yourself from the rain. It was fun watching him deal with various issues that presented themselves…

New research at a massive archaeological fossil site in Patagonia, Argentina reveals that some of the primitive dinosaurs resided in herds, and this particular behavior could be one of the important factors in the survival of the…

National Geographic Explorer, Eshika Fyzee captures distinct wildlife in Kashmir using Space Zoom on Galaxy S21 Ultra 5GThe Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G has a professional-grade 108MP camera with four different lenses:…

Nagpur: Even as Gadchiroli grapples with the worst human-animal conflict in its history over tigers, the entry of a herd of 18 elephants into the tribal-dominated district has put the forestry department on the back burner. toes after a…

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NON-FICTION Last winter : Scientists, Adventurers, Companions and Mavericks trying to save the worldBearer foxSmall, brown, 2021 ($ 28) With every new report on the looming and continuing effects of climate change, it's easy to spell…

LEESVILLE - Thousands of tiny red berries hung from the honeysuckle bushes that surrounded Kyle Bailey as he roamed the forest."They are not natives," said the land manager for the Crawford Park district. "There are native honeysuckles,…

GREENVILLE, NC (WNCT) - The rough, back to nature, get away from it all. Camping means different things to different people. Why even the definition covers a lot of… ground. The Webster Dictionary defines…

New data from clinical trials of SRP-9001 show that investigative gene therapy induces sustained functional improvements in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and does so with good tolerability, Sarepta Therapeutics reported,…

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Just days after sealing sales of documentary series, international factual content distributor and channel owner Quintus Studios announced a range of premium factual content acquisitions for its rapidly growing portfolio of video-on-demand…

The multi-year debate over the conservation of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments has focused on the tension between preserving the history and culture of the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited the…