Museum dishes the dirt for science
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A new exhibit that really dishes the dirt is in the planning stages at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history &#151; that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago &#151; attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied outside.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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The American Museum of Natural Historyâs show is enlightening, yet frustrating:  It presents a free-flowing flood of data and has an overly insistent and predictable message.
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At the Getty Institute, conservators work to preserve art constructed out of an ever-expanding array of synthetic products.
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From Athens to Washington, museums jostle one another for a place in the sun.
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Yesterdayâs crash of the Genesis sample return canister forced scientists to look for slivers of hope in the busted up remains of fragile collection arrays.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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The technology behind cleaning clothes has spun through more than a few cycles over the last century, from clunky hand-cranked machines to today's gleaming appliances that can detect a load's size and even how much grime is ground into the fabric.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Stung by scandal, the Smithsonian needs to dust off Americaâs collection.
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The state's three largest science museums are offering an identical exhibit discussing the scientific view of early stem cell research, just weeks before Missourians vote on a proposal to protect such research in the state.
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A new book and an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum grew out of what Annie Leibovitz has described as an archaeological dig: an unearthing and sifting of a decade and a half of her work.
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Students and professors from different disciplines are collaborating in the study of the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
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Optimistic scientists on Thursday plucked dirt and mud from a mangled capsule which crashed in the Utah desert, hoping to find enough solar dust to yield clues about the dawn of the planetary system.
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Two physicistsÂ work provides a new twist in the mystery surrounding a group of small drip paintings discovered several years ago in a storage locker in Wainscott, N.Y.