Amelia Earhart & The Women Who Soared
When Amelia Earhart touched down in Northern Ireland in 1932, she was instantly propelled to ...
How the Dinosaurs Got their Feathers
66 million years ago, the K/PG extinction event brought the Age of Dinosaurs to a violent end. Ho...
Paleoart: Bringing the Past to Life
What do you see when you imagine a dinosaur? Whatever image springs to mind owes itself to the wo...
The Apple II: the Revolutionary Personal Computer
The history of modern computing is a long road that stretches from the earliest computers that co...
JUICE Mission Blasts Off to Jupiter
The question of alien life has long preoccupied astrobiologists and other scientists, but it coul...
Where the Spinosaurus Roam: Morocco’s Kem Kem Formation
In the thick of a brackish swamp that stretches for miles in every direction, a lumbering Spinosa...
The Galaxy in Your Gut: Microbes and Humans
Right now as you read these words, no matter who you are or where you live, tens of trillions of ...
Mary Anning the Fossil Hunter
Decades before Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution, another equally controversial ...
The Miniature World: A History of the Smithsonian
Dotted along the National Mall, in the heart of Washington DC, the Smithsonian’s museums contain ...
Stromatolites: The Earliest Life
Charles Darwin had a problem: with a poor fossil record preceding the Cambrian explosion, his the...
The Bone Wars: Paleontology's Greatest Rivalry
Many of our early insights into the dinosaurs of North America owe themselves to the dramatic riv...
The Dinosaur Tyrant: A Look at the T. Rex
Measuring 40ft (12m) in length and weighing upwards of 14 tons, Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the ...
The RMS Lusitania (1907-1915)
It was one of the largest and fastest ships of its time, but today the RMS Lusitania is remembere...
How to Start a Collection
So you want to start a collection, but you’re faced with the same daunting question every novice ...
Plesiosaurus: Mary Anning's Sea Monster
Featuring a long, snake-like neck and a stout body equipped with slender paddles, Plesiosaurs are...
The History of Giving Gifts
Throughout human history, across wildly different civilizations and cultures, certain universal b...
SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane in the Sky
The SR-71 was a top secret reconnaissance plane that flew throughout the Cold War, serving from i...
The History of Collecting
Why do we collect things? What is it that compels us to seek out a rare baseball card, the final ...
Understanding Extinction Events
An artist's rendering of the Chicxulub impact. (Source: Mini Museum)
Life on Earth is defined by ...
Methods of Scientific Dating
An image of the Grand Canyon, with layers of the Earth exposed. (Source: National Park Service)
...
The Birth of our Solar System
An image of the Carina Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing stars forming. (So...
Spinosaurus: A Changing Aquatic Predator!
An old model Spinosaurus in a Cretaceous River Delta. Our new understanding of the creature has a...
Nothing Would Ever Be The Same : Stories from the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the research and development effort which allowed the...
The Currents of Migration - An Essay on Human Migration in History
As we’ve followed the progression of life across billions of years of history, we’ve come across ...
7 Unique Science Gifts for Historians
Finding cool gifts for cool people doesn't have to be a chore.
Mini Museum has you covered with u...
The Beautiful, Constant Change of Mount Fuji
At 3,776 meters, Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. Yet, the modern Mount Fuji is actua...
Do Space Cowboys Ever Sing the Blues?
In 2015, NASA Astronaut and International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly noted that "music i...
Fifteen Recipes for Preparing Dinosaur Eggs
When thinking about deep time, we often find ourselves caught up in the grand movements and n...
We are Made of Stardust
Each year nearly 40,000,000 kilograms (88.1 million pounds) of meteoritic material rains down on ...
How This Planet Became Our Planet
Today is the 52nd celebration of "Earth Day" since the holiday's conception in 1970. Though it's ...
How to Buy a Dinosaur Fossil
It may sound surprising, but dinosaurs don't just have to stay at the museum; there are plenty of...
How to Clean the Tallest Mountain in the World
It seems like a simple thing, but the removal of a ladder or any equipment from the slopes of th...
More from Cool Things!
NASA's Telescope Spots a Nebula That Looks Like a Hamburger!
9 days ago
HH 30, the hamburger nebula
Post Author - Ellis Nolan
They say art imitates life, but this month,...
Can an Octopus’s Genome Help Scientists Chart Changes in Antarctic Ice?
14 days ago
An octopus (source: Tennessee Aquarium)
Post Author - Ellis Nolan
Octopuses are fascinating creat...
Defending a Meteorite in Court?
Forsberg and Zetterqvist with their meteorite find. (source: The Times)
Post Author - Ellis Nolan...