The Brave New World of Botany
Carnegie Museum botanists are using a centuries-old plant collection to provide novel insights into the globe’s most pressing environmental issues.
Tag: Science & Nature
First Look: Just Our Types
A glimpse at something new, novel, or rarely seen at Carnegie Museums.
Q+A: Maria Renzelli
In conversation with the caretaker of the USS Requin.
Rare Finds
A member asks: What’s the rarest mineral in Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems?
Wild & Wonderful
National Geographic published its first wildlife photograph—a reindeer—in 1903, and it’s been connecting its readers to the great outdoors ever since.
“We’re living the climate change right now.”
Rural communities in western Pennsylvania are suffering the effects of increasingly extreme weather and other consequences of a warming world. Carnegie Museum of Natural History hopes to help connect those seeking solutions.
Director’s Note: Winter 2019
A message from Eric Dorfman
Bird Brains and Concussions
Scientists know that scores of birds die after colliding with windows. But what happens to those birds that strike a window and fly away?
For the Love of Science
Carnegie Museum of Natural History educators use pop culture, art, and really cool frogs to help kids connect with science.
Field Lessons
Whether she’s in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo or the city parks of Pittsburgh, tropical ecologist Jennifer Sheridan is living her best life, and she wants young people to have the same opportunity. Where to start? Just pick up a frog.