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.
What Do Women Scientists, Conditioning Techniques, and Rats Have in Common?
Training Norway rats to play basketball is pretty hard. But what might be more difficult is deciding what to name the seven new rat basketball trainees at the Museum!
Question Your World: What Are the Stranger Things in Science?
According to the Neilson ratings, in the first three days of November, 15.8 million people watched the first episode of the Netflix original Stranger Things! Fictional shows are all well and good, but the science world has some pretty strange facts to offer as well.
