Rita Baldwin reveals her enchantment with nature at Museum’s Nature Art Gallery in November
October 27, 2017
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — This November, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery presents “Nature’s Enchantment,” paintings by Chatham County-based artist and commercial orchid grower Rita Baldwin. The show runs Nov. 3-26, with a gallery reception Saturday, Nov. 4, from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission to the Gallery is free. All exhibited art… Read More >
“Ghostbusters” at the Science Museum? Get Slimed One More Time!
October 19, 2017
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — New York City is headed for a disaster. Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria! So, who would you call? You got it! The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is showing “Ghostbusters” on the big screen,… Read More >
Keratin, Pigment, Proteins from 54 Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Show Survival Trait Evolution
Keratin, Pigment, Proteins from 54 Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Show Survival Trait Evolution from NC State News.
Mass Extinctions Led to Low Species Diversity, Dinosaur Rule
October 10, 2017
Two of the earth’s five mass extinction events – times when more than half of the world’s species died – resulted in the survival of a low number of so-called “weedy” species that spread their sameness across the world as the Earth recovered from these dramatic upheavals. The findings could shed light on modern high… Read More >
Shannon Bueker’s “Deer, Oh Dear” at science museum’s Nature Art Gallery in October
September 29, 2017
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — Chatham County artist Shannon Bueker has always drawn. “As a kid, there wasn’t any surface that was safe from me and my crayons.” Surfaces remain at risk. After earning a degree in studio art from the University of Texas she migrated to North Carolina, where for the past 24 years her… Read More >