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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Geology, Museum, Space, Video on 01 10th, 2012 | No Comments

New Mexico Space Rock Recovered

New Mexico Space Rock Recovered
Leann Lloyd had the dubious honor of lugging a metallic rock through airport security in Missouri. She was on her way back to Albuquerque and the Meteorite Museum at University of New Mexico after retrieving the missing meteorite. She says, “It stopped the line and caused a big hub-bub and three...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Museum, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Beauty of Science

Beauty of Science
When Alex de Voogt couldn’t get a crumbling sheath to release an early 20th Century Egyptian knife, he turned to a cutting-edge, high resolution, computed tomography (CT) scanner for help. Using the advanced x-ray technology he was able to see inside the knife covering and reveal writing on the...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Dinosaurs, Museum on 05 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Paleontologists Race Against Time

Paleontologists Race Against Time
A clock started ticking the minute a bulldozer driver discovered a fossil dating back more than 50,000 years last October. He was clearing an area for a reservoir above Snowmass Village, high in the Colorado Rockies. What Jesse Steele discovered could be the biggest high-elevation Ice Age fossil preserve....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Health and Medicine, Museum, Video on 07 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Mummies of World Unwrapped and Ready to Tour

Mummies of World Unwrapped and Ready to Tour
The “Mummies of the World” exhibit opens in Los Angeles featuring 150 specimens of human and animal remains and related artifacts from across the globe. Mummy Science Cedars-Sinai Medical Center partnered with the German Mummy Project to perform CT scans of the mummies included in the exhibition. “If...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Museum, Video on 11 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Google Documents Iraqi Museum Treasures

Google Documents Iraqi Museum Treasures
Google is documenting the artifacts of Iraq’s national museum. Google chief Eric Schmidt toured the museum Tuesday, and said the photographs would be available for viewing online in 2010.
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