Expert insights. Personalized for you.
1, members had the chance to experience Academy science alongside our extraordinary curators, collection managers, researchers, educators and animal ambassadors. Our members are truly a force for nature. . MORE
Exploring the archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences , Legacy Center and the Schramm Inc. A HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. MORE
On August 19, The GIANT Company and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced the award of grants to 42 recipients of its Healing the Planet Grants. MORE
Mathematics is described by various people as the only science that will ever prove anything, the only science capable of providing an absolute “yes” or “no” answer, and as the purest science. Without mathematics, there would be no applied or theoretical science. MORE
Parts of the latest draft of the international deal to reverse the decline of nature have pleased some campaigners, but significant gaps remain. In addition, there is stronger recognition of the role of local communities and indigenous people in protecting nature , said Krueger. MORE
Community science is underway to assess the impact of Lights Out Philly using collision monitoring. led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, and two local Audubon Society chapters — Valley Forge and Wyncote. MORE
Along with chemistry and biology , physics completes the trinity of the original “hard” sciences - those that use testable predictions and hypotheses, experiments, and mathematics and modelling as opposed to the “soft” sciences which use more qualitative data and which relies far less on testing. MORE
Bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $29 billion by FY 2026. This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. MORE
Mr. Mendel’s work, presented in his powerful exhibition Gideon Mendel: Drowning World , draws our attention to what is fundamentally true but infrequently appreciated: Humanity is a part of — not apart from — the natural world. MORE
Richard Johnson, director of Climate Year at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Roland Wall , director of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences. MORE
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). MORE
Read the full story from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. How are the squirrels doing this year? The bears? The armadillos? How would you know? A new paper published June 8 sets up the framework for answering these questions across the United States by releasing the data from the first national mammal survey… Read more → Publications Wildlife MORE
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University–Thursday–Sunday, May 6–9 and May 13–16 Offer: Free general admission for hospital workers and up to three guests To redeem: Timed admission is required. MORE
4; Intersection Of Art & Science Storyteller Carolyn Finney Nov. 28 Central Regional Workshops [PaEN] -- Inquirer: On 9/11 Anniversary, Veterans, Refugees Seek Healing Thru Nature At Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education -- Times Observer: Youth Explore Streams, Fishing As Part Of Trout Unlimited STREAM Program In Warren County -- Academy Of Natural Sciences Blog: Science Never Stops To Protect Water Quality -- Dept. MORE
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. We reconstruct how Neanderthals could have used fire to dazzle, corral, and grab flying choughs at night,” says first author Dr Guillermo Blanco from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. MORE
I’ll admit, I did have a hard time eating cicadas for three main reasons: 1) I’m not used to eating insects/cicadas, so naturally trying new food made me a bit cautious. The 17-year cicadas, Magicicada spp. , are nearly here! MORE
Much of this work falls within the natural sciences. Stewart Brand –a contender for the most interesting living person in the world–famously opened the Whole Earth Catalogue in 1969, “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” MORE
After Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences signed an historic affiliation on Oct. See for yourself how the Academy is a “force for nature:”. #1 2 New Ways to Research and Study the Art of Science. MORE
Later, in 2015, as a Master’s student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab working on a science–art project called Aspire Mirror , she had a similar issue with facial analysis software: it detected her face only when she wore a white mask. MORE
Here is the second and final post in the series which is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Indigenous ideals have always put nature at the forefront. MORE
My new book is an attempt to see the commonality around science, sociology and philosophy. No-one ever said science is logical. Oh, everyone says science is logical, but it’s not true. How could you distrust science if it could give you such a thing? MORE
million to clean up and restore polluted waters, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, and increase access to nature throughout the Delaware River watershed. The science is clear. MORE
Dear ESA Members: The US House of Representatives may be considering the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Future Act ( H.R. The bill would reauthorize landmark legislation for the National Science Foundation (NSF), provide steady, increasing funding levels for NSF and also create a new Technology and Engineering Solutions Directorate. The House Science Committee will be voting shortly to pass the bill out of Committee and onto the full House. May 25, 2021. MORE
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University recently launched the Museum Innovation Fund to provide seed funding to Drexel faculty and students for projects that promote conception and rapid prototyping of innovative approaches to museum learning and engagement. MORE
But these are insects that have always occurred here, at least for hundreds of thousands of years, and are one of our special natural phenomenon. Their body structures have been studied and adapted to solve some of our engineering problems in material science. MORE
This post, part one of a two-part series, is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences. . Amy Whisenhunt Eno, she/her, Philadelphia , Manager of Individual Giving at the Academy of Natural Sciences. MORE
Apply your knowledge of natural science and your enthusiasm for streams and rivers to help the Commission, our partners, and the Susquehanna Basin’s stakeholders improve aquatic resource conditions by joining the Monitoring & Protection Program as an Environmental Scientist or Aquatic Biologist. The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is seeking qualified candidates to fill an Environmental Scientist position. MORE
I heard Angela Weeks, head of the Ted Bradley Herbarium and a professor at George Mason University (VA), speak about how digitizing historical records could benefit science by creating accessible data. MORE
The Lackawanna College Environmental Education Center invites children ages three to six years old and their parents or guardians to attend Early Explorers, a program aimed at providing children with a lifelong, meaningful relationship with the natural world. MORE
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. MORE
The Montgomery County-based Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy is set to host more science mini-camps and single-day adventures throughout the rest of the summer on the Conservancy’s brand new “Floating Classroom” at Green Lane Park. MORE
Community science is underway to assess the impact of Lights Out Philly using collision monitoring. led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, and two local Audubon Society chapters-- Valley Forge and Wyncote. MORE
It is a natural form of twig pruning for established trees and doesn’t do them permanent harm every 17 years. You can track that yourself as your own science project using a temperature probe or even estimate it by getting the highs and lows for the last few days and averaging them. MORE
As a researcher at the Academy of Natural Sciences, I am a strong supporter of protecting natural areas and the importance of biodiversity for its own sake. And nature provided a key service to many of us for being active and getting out of the house. MORE
graduate research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences and PhD candidate at Drexel, has been researching different fire characteristics and its effect on ecosystems in many places, including the Pine Barrens. MORE
Recipient Amy Carpenter will attend Susquehanna University to study Earth and Environmental Science. She is passionate about conservation and the environment and intends to study environmental science. In high school, she was an Executive Council member of the National Honor Society and a member of Science Olympiad and the Environmental Club where she participated in the Envirothon Competition and received first place locally. MORE
A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. MORE
Science is a highly creative endeavour and also requires logical problem solving, so what I use most often are my analytical skills and creativity. In both my science communication work and my research, these skills are indispensable. What skills do you use every day in your job? MORE
I had the privilege of meeting the real James Bond in the 1970s when I was a very young temp worker at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, now the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. MORE
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has one of the 10 largest and most taxonomically diverse collections of birds in the world. Next, we use cotton to stuff the eyeball sockets and place a cone of cotton in the body cavity to give it the natural shape of a bird. MORE
Natural Sciences Related Topics A Greener Life
AUGUST 4, 2021
Parts of the latest draft of the international deal to reverse the decline of nature have pleased some campaigners, but significant gaps remain. In addition, there is stronger recognition of the role of local communities and indigenous people in protecting nature , said Krueger.
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 28, 2021
Read the full story from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. How are the squirrels doing this year? The bears? The armadillos? How would you know? A new paper published June 8 sets up the framework for answering these questions across the United States by releasing the data from the first national mammal survey… Read more → Publications Wildlife
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Apply your knowledge of natural science and your enthusiasm for streams and rivers to help the Commission, our partners, and the Susquehanna Basin’s stakeholders improve aquatic resource conditions by joining the Monitoring & Protection Program as an Environmental Scientist or Aquatic Biologist. The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is seeking qualified candidates to fill an Environmental Scientist position.
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).
Academy of Natural Sciences
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Exploring the archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences , Legacy Center and the Schramm Inc. A HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 12, 2021
Richard Johnson, director of Climate Year at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Roland Wall , director of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Academy of Natural Sciences
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
I had the privilege of meeting the real James Bond in the 1970s when I was a very young temp worker at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, now the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
Academy of Natural Sciences
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University recently launched the Museum Innovation Fund to provide seed funding to Drexel faculty and students for projects that promote conception and rapid prototyping of innovative approaches to museum learning and engagement.
Academy of Natural Sciences
AUGUST 11, 2021
Community science is underway to assess the impact of Lights Out Philly using collision monitoring. led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, and two local Audubon Society chapters — Valley Forge and Wyncote.
Academy of Natural Sciences
OCTOBER 8, 2021
1, members had the chance to experience Academy science alongside our extraordinary curators, collection managers, researchers, educators and animal ambassadors. Our members are truly a force for nature. .
Academy of Natural Sciences
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Here is the second and final post in the series which is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Indigenous ideals have always put nature at the forefront.
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.
Academy of Natural Sciences
OCTOBER 13, 2021
This post, part one of a two-part series, is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences. . Amy Whisenhunt Eno, she/her, Philadelphia , Manager of Individual Giving at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 21, 2021
As a researcher at the Academy of Natural Sciences, I am a strong supporter of protecting natural areas and the importance of biodiversity for its own sake. And nature provided a key service to many of us for being active and getting out of the house.
Frontier Sin
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. We reconstruct how Neanderthals could have used fire to dazzle, corral, and grab flying choughs at night,” says first author Dr Guillermo Blanco from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The Lackawanna College Environmental Education Center invites children ages three to six years old and their parents or guardians to attend Early Explorers, a program aimed at providing children with a lifelong, meaningful relationship with the natural world.
Academy of Natural Sciences
OCTOBER 20, 2021
After Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences signed an historic affiliation on Oct. See for yourself how the Academy is a “force for nature:”. #1 2 New Ways to Research and Study the Art of Science.
Physics World
JULY 27, 2021
Science is a highly creative endeavour and also requires logical problem solving, so what I use most often are my analytical skills and creativity. In both my science communication work and my research, these skills are indispensable. What skills do you use every day in your job?
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 11, 2021
Community science is underway to assess the impact of Lights Out Philly using collision monitoring. led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, and two local Audubon Society chapters-- Valley Forge and Wyncote.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 17, 2021
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has one of the 10 largest and most taxonomically diverse collections of birds in the world. Next, we use cotton to stuff the eyeball sockets and place a cone of cotton in the body cavity to give it the natural shape of a bird.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 28, 2021
graduate research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences and PhD candidate at Drexel, has been researching different fire characteristics and its effect on ecosystems in many places, including the Pine Barrens.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 29, 2021
Mr. Mendel’s work, presented in his powerful exhibition Gideon Mendel: Drowning World , draws our attention to what is fundamentally true but infrequently appreciated: Humanity is a part of — not apart from — the natural world.
Academy of Natural Sciences
MAY 13, 2021
I’ll admit, I did have a hard time eating cicadas for three main reasons: 1) I’m not used to eating insects/cicadas, so naturally trying new food made me a bit cautious. The 17-year cicadas, Magicicada spp. , are nearly here!
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 26, 2021
A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
ESA
MAY 25, 2021
Dear ESA Members: The US House of Representatives may be considering the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Future Act ( H.R. The bill would reauthorize landmark legislation for the National Science Foundation (NSF), provide steady, increasing funding levels for NSF and also create a new Technology and Engineering Solutions Directorate. The House Science Committee will be voting shortly to pass the bill out of Committee and onto the full House. May 25, 2021.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 20, 2021
It is a natural form of twig pruning for established trees and doesn’t do them permanent harm every 17 years. You can track that yourself as your own science project using a temperature probe or even estimate it by getting the highs and lows for the last few days and averaging them.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 20, 2021
But these are insects that have always occurred here, at least for hundreds of thousands of years, and are one of our special natural phenomenon. Their body structures have been studied and adapted to solve some of our engineering problems in material science.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 5, 2021
The Montgomery County-based Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy is set to host more science mini-camps and single-day adventures throughout the rest of the summer on the Conservancy’s brand new “Floating Classroom” at Green Lane Park.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
4; Intersection Of Art & Science Storyteller Carolyn Finney Nov. 28 Central Regional Workshops [PaEN] -- Inquirer: On 9/11 Anniversary, Veterans, Refugees Seek Healing Thru Nature At Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education -- Times Observer: Youth Explore Streams, Fishing As Part Of Trout Unlimited STREAM Program In Warren County -- Academy Of Natural Sciences Blog: Science Never Stops To Protect Water Quality -- Dept.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 15, 2021
I heard Angela Weeks, head of the Ted Bradley Herbarium and a professor at George Mason University (VA), speak about how digitizing historical records could benefit science by creating accessible data.
Legal Planet
JULY 13, 2021
Much of this work falls within the natural sciences. Stewart Brand –a contender for the most interesting living person in the world–famously opened the Whole Earth Catalogue in 1969, “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”
Physics World
JULY 2, 2021
My new book is an attempt to see the commonality around science, sociology and philosophy. No-one ever said science is logical. Oh, everyone says science is logical, but it’s not true. How could you distrust science if it could give you such a thing?
PA Environment Daily
JULY 6, 2021
Recipient Amy Carpenter will attend Susquehanna University to study Earth and Environmental Science. She is passionate about conservation and the environment and intends to study environmental science. In high school, she was an Executive Council member of the National Honor Society and a member of Science Olympiad and the Environmental Club where she participated in the Envirothon Competition and received first place locally.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
million to clean up and restore polluted waters, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, and increase access to nature throughout the Delaware River watershed. The science is clear.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 19, 2021
On August 19, The GIANT Company and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced the award of grants to 42 recipients of its Healing the Planet Grants.
Physics World
MAY 4, 2021
Later, in 2015, as a Master’s student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab working on a science–art project called Aspire Mirror , she had a similar issue with facial analysis software: it detected her face only when she wore a white mask.
Environmental Science
AUGUST 17, 2018
Mathematics is described by various people as the only science that will ever prove anything, the only science capable of providing an absolute “yes” or “no” answer, and as the purest science. Without mathematics, there would be no applied or theoretical science.
Environmental Science
AUGUST 7, 2018
Along with chemistry and biology , physics completes the trinity of the original “hard” sciences - those that use testable predictions and hypotheses, experiments, and mathematics and modelling as opposed to the “soft” sciences which use more qualitative data and which relies far less on testing.
ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
Bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $29 billion by FY 2026. This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026.
52 
Let's personalize your content