While exploring some of the 7.3 million dried plant specimens for Kew’s Digitisation Project that are being made freely ...
Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side down or how ducks stay dry. But these quirky experiments often lead to ...
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying—besides her owner, ...
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to ...