Book Review: The Planet Factory
The Planet Factory is a guide to real-life Tatooines, planets made of diamonds, and possible Earth twins. It’s a story…
Month: September 2017
Citizen Scientists Invited to Identify Plants
By Kate Stone @GotScienceOrg Pl@ntNet is a citizen science project and an app that helps you identify plants, thanks to…
Ongoing Human Evolution Revealed in Data
A research team at Columbia University has conducted a large-scale study of ongoing human evolution. Genetic data reveals how humans…
Shelf Life Video: The Salamander-Algae Symbiotic Relationship
What happens inside a Salamander egg? How does the embryo interact with its environment? Find out in this video.
How Can Kids Become Citizen Scientists?
Can children be effective citizen scientists? A team from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has a program to answer that question.
Shelf Life Video: The Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch
Dinosaurs’ fossils have attracted paleontologists to the Badlands of Ghost Ranch, NM, since 1881. Here, they have found the best…