Experimental Musings

While a good night of sleep can do wonders for your mental and physical health, the opposite of that, being sleep deprived, has some serious consequences.

For scientists, the scope of discovery can range anywhere from the totally straightforward to the totally weird. And if we're exploring the world of the weird, one animal seems to come up quite a bit: the duck-billed platypus.

There's been some talk about meteorites recently so we thought we'd have our Museum astronomer explain a little about them. 

As the global climate changes, scientists are becoming more and more interested in how this will impact our day-to-day lives. We've heard about the distant polar bears and ice sheets, but what about right here at home?

The pursuit for better materials is something that many scientists take quite seriously. Recently, some researchers found a way to make something smaller while making it much stronger.