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Hands On: the Natural History Museum's Revamped 'Explorer' App
2016-05-05 19:04:26| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The app is designed to locate points of interest, but also introduces patrons to exhibits they might not otherwise find.
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Hands On: the Natural History Museum's Revamped 'Explorer' App
2016-05-05 19:04:25| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The app is designed to locate points of interest, but also introduces patrons to exhibits they might not otherwise find.
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natural
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PPG Painting it Forward: Refreshed Look for Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums
2016-02-23 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Science museums cutting financial ties to fossil fuel industry
2015-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A handful of science and natural history museums across the globe announced in recent weeks they are cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry, limiting their sponsorship and donations and culling oil and gas stocks from their investment portfolios. The Field Museum in Chicagoone of the largest natural history museums in the worldquietly announced Friday it has divested its financial portfolio from fossil fuels. The Australian Academy of Sciences said it finished divesting in late October. The...
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'Fire frogs' and eel-like amphibians: The Field Museum's Brazilian fossil discovery
2015-11-05 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Two hundred and seventy-eight million years ago, the world was a different place. Not only were the landmasses merged into the supercontinent of Pangaea, but the land was home to ancient animals unlike anything alive today. But until now, very little information was available about what animals were present in the southern tropics. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Field Museum and colleagues from around the world describe several new amphibia…
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