Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.

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On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

“We pay tribute to the people of the Post Office Transcontinental Air Mail Service, the greatest single step ever taken to make commercial aviation a practical day-and-night reality. Very much to the ...

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Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford being told in 1901, by his co-worker Frederick Soddy, ...

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History announced an ambitious slate of exhibits and public programs for the first half ...

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An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...