Harvard Museum of Natural History will present Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation with James D. Watson and Edward O. Wilson on Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 5:30 pm. The event will be held in Sanders Theatre at Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. James D. Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for [...]
On Thursday, July 9, at 6:30 p.m., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will kick off the exhibition Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs with a free group karaoke party. The event celebrates the exhibition’s opening and the Boston premiere of Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) by artist Candice Breitz, a video installation featuring 30 hard-core [...]
As New England Aquarium researcher Monica Zani flew low over the right whale, she saw big, bubbling pools of blood coming up alongside the thrashing fifty-foot endangered whale. She thought the worst fearing a massive injury from a vessel strike. Rolando Salmon, the pilot of the small spotting plane, quickly started circling the distressed whale [...]
At the New England Aquarium, an Anaconda has some babies on January 1, 2008:
A great look back at a New England commercial from the 70′s: “The New England Aquarium – Where Families Get Together.”
In partnership with the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the Museum of Science, Boston is installing the nation’s first museum-based rooftop Wind Turbine Lab this summer. As the centerpiece of its new Catching the Wind exhibit, the Museum began installation of nine wind turbines of five different types during Earth Month 2009. A symbol of the [...]
Most Bostonians usually see turtles at the New England Aquarium, but a new aquarium ad campaign and contest suggests that turtles can be seen in many of the objects all around us. Some of the remarkable likenesses of turtles used in a new marketing campaign include a stunning close-up of two water droplets on a [...]
Just as the first North Atlantic right whales are spotted making their seasonal migration from New England waters to their calving grounds off Florida and Georgia, these critically endangered animals are finally getting protection Tuesday from fast moving ships that accidentally kill or injure the majestic animals along the East Coast. On Dec. 9, the [...]
A New England Aquarium diver has performed the aquatic version of finding a needle in a haystack by finding a lost wedding ring in the Aquarium’s four-story, 200,000-gallon Giant Ocean Tank more than three months after it was lost. In early July, a guest diver lost his wedding ring while petting a 560-pound sea turtle [...]
Seals at the New England Aquarium will have a new home next summer as construction has begun on a new marine mammal exhibit on the harbor-side of the Aquarium in downtown Boston. The innovative, new space will be called the New Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center in honor of a lead gift of over $3 [...]