Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Written by Louis Andracchio Delicate fronds of a water hornfern reach out to the edges of the archival paper. A dark cluster of ginger flowers float silently between two green blades of leaves. A golden bunch of rice stalks fan out as if caught in a breeze.

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 1, 2025

Tanya Dapkey, the Macroinvertebrates Section Lead of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research, stands on the edges of the Delaware River. Trees rustle in the breeze, the water laps on mossy rocks.

Ocean

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Photo credit: Forest Research. By Anders Lorenzen At the end of November, as part of National Tree Week, the University of Reading and Forest Research released Tree Species Guide for UK Agroforestry Systems to help UK farmers plant more trees and shrubs.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 4, 2025

On March 5, the Academy of Natural Sciences Board of Trustees elected a new chair, Suzanne Biemiller. What do you think makes the Academy of Natural Sciences special? These are all examples of science that serves and they help make the Academy a unique natural science organization.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 3, 2025

The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection is one of the most diverse collections in the Academy. Spanning across 59 different countries in all three geological eras, it represents nine different phyla that encompass a broad range of ancient life-forms that lack a backbone.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

Want to meet like-minded nature enthusiasts and make a difference together? Pennsylvania Master Naturalist is a statewide partnership initiative that aims to connect people with their local ecosystems through intensive natural science training and local conservation service work.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In the Academy’s Library & Archives, Photographs of Medicinal, Economic, and Interesting Plants from Natural Living Specimens, Indigenous and Introduced (1896) is just one example of a bound manuscript containing cyanotypes. Created by photographer, chemist and botanist Charles L.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 17, 2025

Gentlemen , he began, Having determined to devote my life to the study of Natural History, I respectfully apply for a studentship at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Shortly before his 15th birthday, the precocious Fowler wrote a letter to the Academys Board of Curators.

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Physics World

APRIL 16, 2025

Weinberg claimed this statement meant that Socrates “was not very interested in natural science”. The text in question was Plato’s Phaedo , where Socrates expresses his disappointment with his fellow philosopher Anaxagoras for giving descriptions of heavenly bodies “in purely physical terms, without regard to what is best”.

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Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

She was a professor of physics and dean of the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, before moving to Shiv Nadar University (SNU), a new, privately funded research university in the Delhi region. Here she was director of the School of Natural Sciences, and then vice-chancellor of the university.

Technology

New Scientist

AUGUST 6, 2025

Palaeolithic dogs are generally, but not always, found in Palaeolithic sites,” says archaeozoologist Mietje Germonpré at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Other clues can be found in the archaeological record.

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Scientific American

JUNE 18, 2025

” Rights & Permissions Amanda Heidt is a freelance science journalist based in Utah who covers topics across the earth and life sciences. Her work has appeared in Nature, Science, National Geographic, The Scientist, Science News , NPR, and elsewhere. For more info, visit www.amandaheidt.com.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

To continue to inspire youth and encourage study and careers in natural science and education, contributions to the scholarship fund and other environmental education and conservation initiatives can be made online at DelawareHighlands.org or by mail to 571 Perkins Pond Rd, Beach Lake, PA 18405.

Conservation

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science. Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Conventional governance toolkits offer few if any tools designed for problems involving non-linear relationships and huge time-lags between cause and effect.

Government

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

The three-year study led by OSI is part of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, a four-state collaborative funded by William Penn Foundation to restore and protect the watershed that serves as the source of drinking water for 15 million people, including residents of New York City, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Wilmington.

Natural Sciences

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will host Bug Fest! Join us at the Academy of Natural Sciences for a wild weekend celebrating a few of our favorite (invertebrate) things. Visit the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University for more information on other educational programs and experiences.

Natural Sciences

Environmental News Bits

JULY 30, 2024

Who is Represented … Continue reading Who is Represented in the Research on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Natural Sciences? Wittekind, E., … Brownell, S. A Review of Literature

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 23, 2023

Atlantic coast as ocean waters warmed over the last 30 years, and are expected to rise further in future because of climate change, according to a study published on Thursday by Scientific Reports, an open-access journal for research on the natural sciences and other topics.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Happy Holidays from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University! Check out our great gift ideas for that special bookworm, young environmentalist or nature enthusiast in your life. This season, give your family a sustainable feel-good gift that lasts all year — a membership to the Academy of Natural Sciences.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 15, 2022

My eyes were opened to what it meant to really appreciate natural sciences and the world we live in while also learning how to keep a small ecological footprint. The Academy of Natural Sciences became a place that held space for me to be my “nerdy” self and the WINS office became a safe place that felt like home.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 12, 2021

Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University have partnered with the City of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and other local organizations to create a new and unique collaboration to develop ways to make the Philadelphia region more climate resilient.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Almost half of the respondents to the survey – conducted by researchers led by Cassidy Sugimoto , an information scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology – were from the natural sciences and engineering (which included physics). About a third, meanwhile, were biomedical scientists and a fifth came from the social sciences.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 30, 2021

In honor of National Hospital Week, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University , the Barnes Foundation , Eastern State Penitentiary , the Franklin Institute , the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art jointly announce Free Admission Days for Hospital Workers.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Each of the 37 incredible dioramas on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences is a valuable tool to engage our visitors and spark a lasting connection to the natural world. This experience sparked a passion for the natural sciences that has lasted a lifetime.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 9, 2023

.” A skilled artist, Emily Griffith has found a way to use illustration and graphic design to further her passion for communicating science Working in the Academy of Natural Sciences ‘ ornithology department, Griffith’s research focuses on the differences in plumage between male and female ducks.

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New Scientist

JULY 22, 2025

The powerful claws of Shri rapax Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels While the skull and several vertebrae were lost prior to repatriation, Cau and his colleagues were able to digitally reconstruct the missing pieces using CT scans of the fossil made in 2016.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 22, 2022

For the answers, I asked experts at the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, just down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from the PMA. By Jim Wright, author of The Real James Bond , the story of the Academy of Natural Sciences ornithologist whose identity was stolen by British author Ian Fleming for his 007.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 1, 2022

These donations vary in size from a single folder to several boxes of papers, and they vary in time from a 19th century Academy membership certificate to a recent acquisition — documents related to the creation of the Women In Natural Sciences program from the 1980s. After 40 years, WINS is still going strong! .

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

My name is Dominique Thomas, I am the Coordinator of Social Justice Programs at The Academy of Natural Sciences. I had the opportunity to participate in the Women In Natural Sciences program from 2008–2012.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Academy of Natural Sciences has amazing membership deals, outdoor experiences, animal encounters, dinosaur-themed gifts and more that will be perfect for the budding scientist or enthusiastic naturalist in your life. . For the Adventurer .

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 6, 2022

What do you love most about the natural sciences? And I want to do that in ways that will make as many people as possible feel they have a meaningful part to play in this extremely important quest to better understand the natural world and take care of it.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The first project in the Academy of Natural Sciences’ yearlong focus on water renews our appreciation for the vital element of water through artworks that combine the marvel and insight of both scientific and artistic inquiry. of Natural Sciences and?Drexel Nature’s Hidden Gems ? . Invisible World of Water ?will

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That makes the Academy of Natural Sciences’ description of five new species in 2021 all the more critical to understanding the natural world and inspiring everyone to care for it.

Deforestation

Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 2, 2022

Over the past 30 years, paleontologists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University have studied Devonian-age rock strata, mostly exposed along highway roadcuts, and collected large numbers of fossil fish across what is now Pennsylvania.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 21, 2022

With support from the Office of Research & Innovation, the College of Engineering and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, seven projects were awarded with over $130,000 in total funding. Environmental Protection Agency. Please visit the Provost’s Office website for more detailed project descriptions.

Air Pollution

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 21, 2021

The map , generated by John Cooley, PhD, is based on more than 45 years of field work by Chris Simon and Cooley and also specimen records in museum collections including those of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University where I work. ” Courtesy of cicadas.uconn.edu. Magicicada cassini specimen. Happy hunting!

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Environmental Collaboratory, established by Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences, seeks to foster climate and environmentally just solutions by supporting research, education, civic engagement and public programming in collaboration with faculty, students and professional staff. 23 through Sunday, Sept.

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