Natural History Museum’s first fixed gallery in years to explore ‘broken planet’
The world-famous London museum will launch the programme in April, including a new gallery and a programme of youth-focused ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
Timothy J McCoy, Smithsonian Institution and Sara Russell, Natural History Museum (THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town ...
Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
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Fired British Museum worker arrested after 'shutting down' museum computer systems
A former British Museum employee has been arrested after allegedly breaking in and shutting down the museum's security and IT systems. The person - who had recently been fired - "trespassed" at ...
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Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Fans of natural building techniques, like the cob used by Ms Pedersen, see need and opportunity. Adobe bricks made of clay, sand and straw, similar to cob, have long been used in the south-west.
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Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires Officials open to alternative building materials like adobe Challenges include financing and insurance for new ...
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Museum gets £1m to restore historic building
A museum has received £1m in grants towards the refurbishment of a historic judicial building. Wiltshire Museum received two grants worth £500,000 each from the Rothschild Foundation and the ...
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2,500-year-old history on display at new museum in PM Modi’s hometown
"The museum, envisioned by Modi ... and governance during various periods of its history," he added. Shah lauded PM Modi as "son of soil" and said that in the future, Vadnagar - along with ...
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Library move opens space for museum and gardens
Plans for the Grade II listed building ... the museum's collection and establish a new "immersive school and community learning space". This space is expected to use the natural environment ...
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Mount Holly museum again at odds with city
The Mount Holly City Council voted against a last-ditch effort by the Mount Holly Historical Society to buy the building that currently ... because it would take the museum out of the city's downtown ...
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British Museum announces gladiator exhibition in Dorset
The British Museum is launching a new exhibition that explores the history of gladiatorial contests in Roman Britain. 'Gladiators of Britain', a British Museum Partnership Exhibition with ...
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‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects
S. Goodhart-Rendel, to find a writer on architectural history who was themselves a distinguished designer. And even he would never have been capable of producing so perceptive, so clever, so enjoyable ...