Tag: Museums
With federal funding in question, artists can navigate a perilous future...
Johanna K. Taylor, Arizona State University and Mary McAvoy, Arizona State University
In a February 2025 Truth Social post,...
Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path...
Jacob S. Suissa, University of Tennessee
Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d...
Colonialism has shaped scientific plant collections around the world – here’s...
Daniel Park, Purdue University
Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils,...
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
Look at 3 enduring stories Americans tell about guns to understand...
Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University and Brian L. Ott, Missouri State University
The United States has struggled with a...
Plantations could be used to teach about US slavery if stories...
Amy Potter, Georgia Southern University and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
State legislatures across the United States are...
Polar bears have captivated artists’ imaginations for centuries, but what they’ve...
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
Polar bears have long held visual artists in their thrall. Over time, the mythologies...
Museum specimens could help fight the next pandemic – why preserving...
Jocelyn P. Colella, University of Kansas and Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
