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A smiling man about 30 years old stands in a brightly lit museum exhibit hall next to a meter-tall dinosaur fossil that stands on a platform.
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Morgan Rehnberg: The Making of a Museum Chief

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 August 202123 March 2023

From Cassini to #scicomm to showcasing science.

Earth as seen from the Moon’s surface
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Places to Celebrate Apollo 11’s Fiftieth Anniversary

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 15 July 20194 October 2022

Apollo 11’s golden anniversary is this weekend, but the celebration lasts all year long.

Photo of a fossil display of T. rex chomping down on Triceratops
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Dinosaurs Roar Again, Now Including a Focus on Climate Change

by Randy Showstack 4 June 201915 April 2022

The newly renovated fossil hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History features spectacular fossils and includes a theme of human impact on life on Earth.

A white man in a fedora looks into the gaping maw of a T. rex fossil.
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King of the Tyrannosaurs Goes on Display

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 10 April 20194 October 2022

The biggest, oldest T. rex found to date shows how big tyrannosaurs could get.

The Washington Monument peeks out from behind a sandstone gatepost
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Self-Guided Tour of the Geology in D. C. Buildings

by L. Strelich 6 December 201813 October 2022

The architecture of the nation’s capital reveals a secret geologic history—take a walking tour to spot the interesting fossils and minerals in the stones used to build the halls of power.

The Ocean Plastics Lab, currently in Washington, D.C., is bringing attention to a global pollution problem.
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Roving Exhibit Highlights Ocean Plastics Problem

by Randy Showstack 7 June 201818 October 2022

The Ocean Plastics Lab, currently on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., illustrates the pollution threat and points to solutions.

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Former NASA Chief Scientist Heads National Air and Space Museum

by Randy Showstack 9 May 201815 November 2022

Taking the helm just as the museum is poised for a major renovation, new director Ellen Stofan told Eos she looks forward to taking the museum “to the next level” and exciting people about science.

Wheat fields painting
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A Window into the Emerging Anthropocene…Through Art

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 9 January 20184 October 2022

Want a snapshot of how humans have been changing their landscapes since the Industrial Revolution? Look at artwork at a local museum, one geoscientist says.

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Sooty Bird Bellies Yield Insights into Historical Air Pollution

by R. Kaufman 16 October 20174 October 2022

A new study mined museum collections to investigate just how sooty the air in the United States has been for the past 135 years.

Giant African land snail in an adult hand
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Giant Snails’ Century-Old Shells Recorded Monsoon Rainfall

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 September 201718 October 2022

Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.

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