Science Stories

NHMU researchers use Google Earth to help age and examine seasons of growth in Utah's ancient juniper trees.

Insects—often considered pests—have an image problem, and NHMU's executive director is here to help change that!

Gain a greater appreciation of using insects as ingredients in your cooking with these simple recipes.

The honeybee is by no means demonstrative of bee diversity. It’s not even native to Utah.

Reconsider the label of "pest" that Utah’s elm seed bugs have recently earned.

Get to know Jackson Crawford, PhD, who is working at the forefront of runology in the English-speaking world.

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!