News articles tagged with 'collection'
New guidance issued for first responders collecting suspected biothreat agents
— 25 Nov 2010 17:33 | HealthSuspicious packages and powders have triggered more than 30,000 responses by U.S. law enforcement agencies across the country since 2001. These events are expensive, time-consuming…
Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150-year-old pressed plants
— 22 Sep 2010 11:25 | BiologyPlants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful - and much needed - new source of…
New standard offers more protection for wild medicines and collectors
— 10 Sep 2010 12:04 | EnvironmentEndangered medicinal and aromatic plants, people collecting them and communities relying on them are expected to benefit from the release this week of a revised standard for their environmentally…
Museums increasingly turn to scientists to preserve treasures
— 22 Oct 2009 07:55 | ChemistryMuseums are increasingly seeking help from chemists in an effort to understand and preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of the treasures in their collections. That's the topic…
Minister Daniel Valchev and Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on a visit to the NMNHS
— 3 May 2009 20:34 | BiologyOn 29 April 2009 NMSII Leader Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Vice-Premier and Minister of Education and Science Daniel Valchev visited the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian…
Cornell to repatriate fungus collection to China, after 70-year stewardship
— 15 Apr 2009 02:54 | BiologyAfter years of careful stewardship by Cornell scientists, a collection of more than 2,000 species of native Chinese fungi, spirited out of the country for safety before World War II,…
Donation of fossils adds eons of time to Oregon collection
— 19 Feb 2009 10:10 | Geology and palaeontologyGreg Retallack picked up his first fossil as a 6-year-old boy on vacation at a beach in Coledale, Australia. The fossil was nothing special - a clam shell in beach rock - but it sparked…
Ocean treasure stored at Texas A and M's IODP repository
— 9 Jan 2009 15:12 | EnvironmentPriceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A and M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated space…
Scientists propose the creation of a new type of seed bank
— 16 Oct 2008 11:28 | BiologyWhile an international seed bank in a Norwegian island has been gathering news about its agricultural collection, a group of U.S. scientists has just published an article outlining…
Field Museum provides gold standard for mammal survey
— 7 Oct 2008 07:35 | BiologyPutting together the Who's Who of bats, bears, beaked whales and all of Earth's other known mammals was a gigantic task ably assisted by a Field Museum scientific team with access to…