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Informal educators get a powerful new way to speak their mind and boost their skills
Few elements of our culture are as firmly established in the 21st century western zeitgeist as the fact that teachers…
After 9,000 years of cultivation, rice has reached its thermal limit
Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the…
African frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live.
Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa’s rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and…
Key points Many years of scientific observation and research show that temperate birds nest in the spring, and their breeding…
Highly and casually active citizen scientists contribute equally valuable data
T he word “nemotia”1 is a neologism, a newly coined term that, in this case, describes the sense of overwhelm…
Scientists lay out what we do and don’t yet know about moths and butterflies
Key points Scientists have published a broad review of what they’ve learned about moths and butterflies over the last few…
Vertebrate paleontology has a numbers problem. Computer vision can help
How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by…
36 months later: Distance learning in the wake of COVID-19
Key points The COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate effect on how educators at museums and science centers interacted with their…
Global shark bites return to average in 2025, with smaller proportion in the United States
Global unprovoked shark bites returned to near-average levels in 2025, following a sharp reduction the year prior. There was a…
Scientists trace ancient bird flight paths using modern plant diversity
Key points The Massif de la Hotte is a young, exceptionally biodiverse mountain range in southern Haiti that is home…