Science Stories

Eliza Petersen explores the Museum's mineralogy collections with chief curator Dr. Randy Irmis.

Ezra Day's insect collection shows how citizen scientists play an essential role in our mission to illuminate the natural world and the place of humans in it.

Ongoing digitization projects offer opportunity to citizen scientists to play an integral role in the modernization of museum collections.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi has lived a life filled with scientific and historic adventure - and she's only getting started.

NHMU educators use innovative methods to partner with Utah schools, providing complementary content to the state curriculum.

For thousands of years, cacao fruit has contained a treasure beloved around the world - chocolate!

Alison Carter, Ph.D. and her collaborators are piecing together the everyday lives of the people in medieval Angkor.

While the ancient metropolis of Angkor has often been described as a "lost city," this ancient city in present-day Cambodia is anything but lost.

Investigative reporter Jason Felch breaks open a sordid tale of antiquities curators, shady middlemen, and looted artifacts across the USA.

Let’s look closer at these various stages of paleontological work that brings dinosaurs back to life at the Museum.

What is a paleoartist? We explore the work of Brian Engh to learn more.

Lynne Quick, senior researcher at Nelson Mandela University, took a break to snap an award-winning photo of her collaborators using Sparkles the unicorn.