NEWS

[RALEIGH, N.C.] – Can’t wait till January for the next Astronomy Days? Then head to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for Summer Blast Off! This outdoor event – held Thursday, June 29, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – offers visitors a variety of ways to shoot off their own mini-rockets, an up-close look… Read More >

Photo: Karen Swain. Esta es una oportunidad para aprender sobre uno de los seres más fantásticos del planeta. por Eduardo Noyola Raleigh. – Una asombrosa exhibición sobre el mundo de las arañas se estrena en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte. Esta se lleva a cabo entre el 17 de junio… Read More >

Twelve North Carolina educators are now in Yellowstone National Park on one of the Museum’s Educators of Excellence Institutes. They met at RDU at 4am on Wednesday, June 14, for ten days exploring the ecology and geology of our first national park, learning from experts and getting ideas and information to bring back to students… Read More >

An eastern cottontail captured on camera through the Raleigh Backyard Sustainability Survey Project. Credit: eMammal. Click image for larger version. By Laura Oleniacz, NCSU News A new study used GPS data to track the movements of 43 species of mammals around the globe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing that animals were able to… Read More >

Life reconstruction of a juvenile Iani smithi. Illustration: Jorge Gonzalez. CC-BY-NC. Click image for larger version. By Tracey Peake, NCSU News A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the… Read More >