Bugged Out: High Schoolers Explore Insect Science Through Museum Display Drawers
A graduate student turned museum display drawers into a four-day high school course on insects in forensics, art, medicine, and ...
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Hidden Moth Diversity Revealed in One of Africa’s Rarest Biodiversity Hotspots
A new survey documents 168 tussock moth species across the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot, including seven genera newly recorded for Mozambique ...
Ghost Mantis Unmasked: Stick-Like Praying Mantis Revealed Across Mexico and Central America as Two Species Collapse Into One
A re-examination of museum specimens confirms Angela miranda in Chiapas and Guatemala, exposes a misidentification in Tabasco, and sinks two ...
Slow Vapor Beats Heat When Rescuing Desiccated Museum Spiders, Study Finds
A new study comparing slow water-vapor and rapid heat-based rehydration finds that gradual ethanol staging causes less tissue damage in ...
Mummified viper reveals lost Hungarian population after six decades
A mummified viper collected in 1962 and mislabeled for decades turns out to be a Hungarian meadow viper, revealing a ...
Lost type specimens reveal a Spanish bee thought to span Asia is an Iberian endemic
A taxonomic revision combining museum detective work and DNA barcoding shows the bee Nomiapis valga is endemic to Spain, while ...
Museums Balance Scientific Discovery with Public Education
Natural history collections have traditionally been viewed as static repositories, filled with drawers of preserved specimens that serve primarily as ...
Tiny New Pseudoscorpion Species Unearthed in South African Museum Collection
A new pseudoscorpion species, Afrogarypus foordi, has been described from South Africa's Free State grasslands after museum specimens were re-examined ...
Century-old woodlouse specimens reveal hidden diversity and pet trade risks
A new revision of the woodlouse genus Merulanella, built on century-old museum specimens, splits the group into four genera and ...
New spider species discovered on remote Ascension Island after decades in museum drawers
A new survey of Ascension Island's ground spiders has revealed a species new to science, Australoechemus vickyae, alongside a newly ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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