Meet the Spatula-Nosed Fish Whose Anatomy Has Hardly Changed Since the Cretaceous

The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs

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Meet the Museum Scientist Studying Modern Birds and Fossils to Understand How Ancient Avians Took Flight

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how flight evolved

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Who Has Opposable Thumbs and a Prehensile Tail? This Tree Rat That Few Have Ever Seen

After sequencing the DNA of the world’s only Emmons’s tree rat specimen, museum scientists have returned to the Bornean forest to learn more about the mysterious rodent

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An Oyster With Teeth Reveals When Mollusks Covered the Chesapeake Bay

Celebrate National Oyster Day by learning about the most bizarre oyster specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection

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Hailing from Glaciers, Geysers and Volcanoes, These Iconic Rocks Provide a Glimpse into How America was Formed and Built

In celebration of National Rock Day, learn how several rock specimens in the new exhibition “From These Lands” shed light on the nation’s geological heritage

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150-Year-Old Frogs Collected by a Founding Smithsonian Naturalist Helped 21st-Century Scientists Track How Pesticides Devastated Amphibian Populations in Illinois

In celebration of the upcoming Save the Frogs Day, learn how scientists used historic cricket frogs to connect hormone-altering industrial chemicals to amphibian declines in the Midwest

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The Smithsonian Curator Who Loved Frogs

As the first female curator of the National Museum of Natural History’s collection of amphibians and reptiles, Doris Cochran shaped herpetology at the museum and beyond

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Meet the Scientist Analyzing Historic Bison DNA to Understand How the Species Rebounded from the Edge of Extinction

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline

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Yvette Cabrera, On Covering the ‘Broccoli’ of Environmental Beats

Environmental justice reporting can be emotionally heavy and hard to swallow, but “there are some really uplifting stories,” the KSJ Fellow explains.

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Unholy

All plugged up with wood, I feel like a bastardized Pinocchio.

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Bees Check Into Hotels On Farms In New Conservation Project

The project finds promising species diversity among cavity-nesting bees — and plenty of parasites.

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News & Events - MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing

Upcoming events and recents news regarding the Graduate Program in Science Writing, our faculty, students, and alumni.

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Unholy

All plugged up with wood, I feel like a bastardized Pinocchio.

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Science journalism becomes plain old journalism

"For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something <em>extra</em> — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed…

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Communities relearn the habits of local news

"If you'd been elected to some local position in the past year, my call was probably your first time ever dealing with a journalist. That had never been true in my past jobs."

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