Nature in Your Backyard: O Christmas Trees!
**Today’s installment of Nature in Your Backyard is brought to you by Madeleine Gonzalez, a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. [...]
Out of This World: An educator reflects on space, climate change and the NASA Social
Last week we were jazzed to learn that one of our favorite local educators, Kristin Bedell, was participating in the NASA Social in Pasadena, California. [...]
Science + Art = SciArt!
Dr. Eleanor and friends have a fun new blog called Buzz Hoot Roar. In each post, they explain a scientific concept that interests or excites [...]
Crazy Aunts, Crazy Ants!
Dr. Eleanor has been busy working on a few new bonus chapters for The Book of Common Ants, focusing on species that are particularly common [...]
The Incredible Journey of My Dog’s Butt Worm
Today, Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice delights us not with ants (as she does in the Book of Common Ants), but with an up close and [...]
The Biggest Microscope in the World–How do We See the Microbiota Around Us?
In this guest post, Dan Fergus, a researcher at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, picks up where Rob left off in the previous [...]
An Important Question From a Citizen Scientist
In this post, our School of Ants guru Lauren Nichols answers a recent query from a family participating in SOA. "Can you tell me why [...]
Moth Madness!
**Today, we have a special guest post from Chris Goforth, Senior Manager of Citizen Science at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. When she’s not [...]
Engendering respect for ants – a trial School of Ants in Australia
I think it would be fair to say that when the extension students at Deepdene Primary School in Melbourne first started their School of Ants experience they were sceptical. They very deliberately told us that they thought ants “were just tiny brown and black things that get into your sugar. What on earth could we learn about them that is interesting?”
There is Ecology in My Backyard!
Today we have a very special guest post by Anna Zuiker, a middle school student and daughter of a friend to Your Wild [...]
Not All the Bugs in Your Home Are Bad
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Genomics of the Ratopolis
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Tiny Tourists Invade the Big City
Today we have a guest post from Mary Jane Epps, post-doc and chief beetle wrangler at Your Wild Life. Recently, Mary Jane has begun investigating [...]
The Unresolved Mysteries of the Mold in Your House
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
How Wild is New York City? Reflections from ScioTeen
Today we have a guest post from Andrew Collins. We met Andrew while doing fieldwork on the streets of NYC and have been impressed by [...]