Science Stories

Pando is the oldest tree in the world. It weighs more than 13 million pounds and lives near Fish Lake in Utah.

Museums can be a classroom where curiosity meets action, advancing both students’ education and the museum’s impact.

The invention of cradles helped women in Indigenous communities balance their roles as breadwinners and mothers, and cradles continue to be made and used today.

Middens of rat feces, some thousands of years old, preserve valuable ecological records that deserve a closer look.

Freshly found caves in South Africa hold clues to Pleistocene past, and NHMU's Tyler Faith is piecing those clues together.

Introducing Bolg, the new Cretaceous lizard prince named for Tolkien's ferocious "The Hobbit" foe!

What new research into crocodylomorphs suggests about the secret to long-term survival.

All forms of life, from tiny microbes to towering elephants, rely on liquid water for survival — a universal truth extending to lifeforms beyond planet Earth.

Flora, Ira, and the whole Science Friday crew are on their way to Salt Lake City for a special, one-night-only, live performance and recording of Science Friday

Learn more about the work of Dr. Ken Balcomb and the Center for Whale Research.

The big-screen adventure movies we love may ignite our curiosity for archaeology, but they hardly show us an accurate picture of what the career entails.

In 2017, NHMU received 2,260 Cambrian fossils from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and are now working to digitizing this remarkable array of fossils.