Question Your World: Are Our Lights Harming Insects?
There’s something about nighttime that’s bugging scientists. Driving at night is a lot safer with our streetlights and we seem to love having our well-lit urban cores for last call, but light pollution is a growing concern.
Question Your World: What Can Dino Dandruff Teach Us?
The most recent dino discovery has enabled experts to better understand the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. This is not your standard dinosaur bone discovery, but it certainly is head and shoulders above the rest.
What’s Buzzing at the Museum?
The observational honeybee hive in our EcoLab is un-BEE-lievably sweet, but recently the Museum added a new spot for the native bee pollinators that’s creating a lot of buzz!
Question Your World: How Many Species Are Left to Be Discovered?
We currently know there are about 1.2 million species to be recorded by science. What’s left to be discovered, however, is very interesting.
Question Your World: Can the Platypus Help Save Lives?
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.
