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UT at Arlington biologist advocates for using museum specimens to track historic pollution
By tapping into museum archives, it’s possible to fill in the missing chapters of a region’s pollution history, says ...
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Field Museum uses CT scans on mummies to see inside them for first time
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber.
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Scans help solve a 3,000-year-old mystery of a high-status Egyptian woman
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Inside the fossil hunt: Digging for the monsters of Illinois’ Mazon Creek
Under McFetridge Drive in Chicago, two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides open a handmade wooden drawer. There are thousands of such drawers ...
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Field Museum's union workers rally, claim 'illegal' retaliation by museum against 2 workers
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The Field Museum’s unionized employees rallied Wednesday outside the storied natural history museum to speak out against what they called management’s ...
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
the director of the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History. Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts while conducting field work in Kenya. The East African Rift Valley region ...