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The first scientific paper describing the almost local meteorite Mifflin that fell on April 14, 2010 in southwestern Wisconsin got published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator for Meteoritics and Polar StudiesPhilipp Heck is a member of the international consortium who studied the space rock and co-author of the study.
Online information on neotropical plant names, herbaria, families, floras and more
Permian brachiopods collected from the Salt Range during WWII by Dr. Sharat Roy.
The Field Museum has acquired six pieces of an extremely important Martian meteorite that was hurled into space about 700,000 years ago when Mars collided with an asteroid.
Learn about the trilobite, Paradoxides that lived during the Cambrian Period, 510 million years old ago.
This specimen, UC 9705, was collected by F. W. Stokes in February, 1902. It is the lobster Hoploparia stokesi and it has the distinction of being the first fossil collected from Antarctica and scientifically described.
Calumet Photographic Dispatches highlights discoveries and happenings in the region by Field Museum staff and partnering organizations
From January 25-27, 2013 the Annual Presolar Grains Workshop was held in Chicago. At this informal gathering cosmochemists and astrophysicists met and talked about how the study of presolar grains can help improve our understanding of how stars work.
Society for Conservation GIS (Geographic Information Systems) hosts an Annual International Conference.
On her birthday, kudus to the First Lady for trying to get people outside.