Darwin's collections 'cocooned' at London museum
London's Natural History Museum on Tuesday unveiled an eight-storey extension in the shape of a cocoon to house the collections of Charles Darwin.
London's Natural History Museum on Tuesday unveiled an eight-storey extension in the shape of a cocoon to house the collections of Charles Darwin.
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Sep 8, 2009
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The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth's seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2021
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Curator Ken Gross had his first encounter with Porsches in college, when the cool guys were driving Super 90 Coupes. His old Ford, which was fine for attracting girls in high school, didn't compare.
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Oct 11, 2013
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Doug Boyer was a hit at his daughter's kindergarten show and tell.
Biotechnology
Oct 21, 2022
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A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2011
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The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die - sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow, and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, developed jointly by the ...
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011
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Gravitational wave scientists have designed and built an interactive science exhibit modeled on a real-life gravitational-wave detector to explain gravitational-wave science. It was developed by an international team, which ...
General Physics
Aug 23, 2021
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The pages of author Frances Hodgson Burnett's manuscript of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" -- separated for nearly a century -- have been reunited in Princeton University's Firestone Library.
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Nov 5, 2010
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(AP) -- Imagine no cars - or fewer, anyway. In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Environment
Jun 24, 2010
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Japanese firms on Wednesday showcased incontinence devices that combine a diaper with a personal bidet, removing waste before cleaning and then drying the wearer as they sleep.
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Sep 26, 2012
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