August 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Top 10 discoveries in archaeology in 2006
- Lucy’s Kitties
- How do we know: dating techniques
- Paleoanthropology: making the past come alive.
- How do we know: ancient environments
- Eternal youth: the story of the discovery of Baby Selam.
- Lucy lived in a desert? No wonder she died!
- “We are all mutants.”
- “Who’s your momma?”
- Meet Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis. (What’s in a name?)
January 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- If humans came from monkeys, then why are monkeys still around?
- Chimps using tools: Archaeology’s most fascinating discovery of 2007
- A Letter From Lucy: Making no bones about it. (Pun intended)
- The Apple Doesn’t Fall Too Far from the Tree
- Teeth Tell Tales
- Discovering behavior: a step-by-step process
- Reconstructing ancient hominid behavior
February 2008 ( View complete archive page )
March 2008 ( View complete archive page )
April 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Monkey Memo
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.30.08)
- PHOTO From You: Insect Identification
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.29.08)
- Leonardo: Parachute of the Past
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.28.08)
- Sky Walking: Astronaut Style
- Neandertals Speak Out
- Neon Leon: Highlighting da Vinci's Genius
- Looking Back...
- Walking in the Footsteps of Dimetrodons
- Lucy loves Houston - and she's not leaving. Yet.
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.23.08)
- Mammal on Board
- Starting Off With a Big Bang - Naturally
- Science Doesn't Sleep - Earth Day!
- The Greenhouses of the Cockrell Butterfly Center
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.21.08)
- Insect Insight: Grecian Shoemaker
- The Messenger
- Looking Back...
- Buggin Around in Costa Rica
- Bringing art "Out of Africa": an interview with iFest's arts director
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.17.08)
- There's no place like home
- What is energy?
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.16.08)
- Welcome to My World
- Creepy Crawlers
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.15.08)
- Journey of the Orange Kings
- Science and Sorting
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.14.08)
- It's big. Really, really big.
- Titanic and Today
- Science Friday! Cheese: Not The Same Mold Story
- Looking Back... (4/11/08)
- Mixers fans unite!
- Butterflies Complete Me
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.10.08)
- Snoring Section Needed
- The Tired Monarch
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.9.08)
- Droppin' it like it's hot: Mixers, Elixirs, & IMAX 2008 Band Lineup
- Astrophysicist and author Jeffrey Bennett visits HMNS
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.8.08)
- More than just bones
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.7.08)
- Welcome to the HMNS Blog!
- Science Friday: "The World Without Us"
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.4.08)
- IMAX - The Upgrade Experience
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.3.08)
- This spring, bring butterflies to your garden
- Science Doesn't Sleep (4.2.08)
- Go Stargazing! April Edition
- Science doesn't sleep
May 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Grand Canyon Adventure: making water conservation cool
- Stare into the Face of Death!
- Insect (relative) Insight: Centipedes and Millipedes
- Roberta: The other brachylophosaur
- A Welcome Visitor
- Science Labs and Outreach Programs
- Scars or Trophies?
- Update: Mystery Skeleton
- A weekend in the land of Giants
- Blog Contest! What's YOUR Greatest Adventure?
- Fossil Hunting
- Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs
- Sky High Delivery! News from the greenhouse
- We're diiiiging in the rain...
- Katydid!...Did she?
- Weather forecast for Malta: 100% chance of rain
- Animal-eye view: Q&A with Crittercam inventor Greg Marshall
- Polo!
- Back in the Saddle
- Adventures in Beekeeping
- Maltastic!
- Committed to the Museum or just needing to be committed?
- A Greener Life
- Roses with Personality: Pink Ladies and Crimson Gents
- Looking Back...
- Science Friday! What's going on in your brain?
- Pixel Magic Under the Dome
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.15.08)
- To BEE or not to BEE
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.14.08)
- Frog Squeegee
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.13.08)
- What would YOU ask a Paleontologist?
- PHOTO From You: Insect Identification
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.12.08)
- Elephants and Chemistry
- Looking Back...
- Offshore Technology Buffet
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.8.08)
- Bye-bye blondie, massive mars and the potato powered web!
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.7.08)
- Shaken, Not Stirred
- Flame on!
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.6.08)
- Adopt A Butterfly
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.5.08)
- A Steamy Discussion
- Looking Back...
- Go Stargazing! May Edition
- Mom, where do butterflies come from?
- Science Doesn't Sleep (5.1.08)
June 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Solar Grasshoppers and Robogirls
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.30.08)
- National Geographic features HMNS and Leonardo
- The world's oldest alternative energy source
- Looking Back...
- Science Friday: Grasshopper-bot
- A Hard Day's Night
- Magnificent Monarch's Munch
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.26.08)
- One if by land, two if by sea
- Critter Cameo - Mysterious Matamata
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.25.08)
- A Windy Day
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.24.08)
- Meeting Leonardo
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.23.08)
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Looking Back...
- British Invasion
- Tomorrow's scientists are giggling about sheep eyeballs today
- News from the Butterfly Center: Vinegaroon gives birth to...grasshoppers??
- Diary of a Summer Camp Shopaholic
- Mystery Skeleton - Update 3
- Photo from US: Insect Identification
- Dimetrodon sighting
- Testing for the Best
- Mystery Skeleton - Update 2
- Looking Back...
- Photo From You : Insect Identification
- Little who?!?
- Out in the garden
- Busted bunny caught in bad behavior
- Some Serious Bling
- Bees, Benton, and my Back Yard
- Grand Canyon Adventure: A Fun, Yet Totally Unrelated Interview with Narrator Robert Redford
- Octane Pain
- These are a few of my favorite things
- Salsa Sharks
- A major step forward - 40,000 years ago
- I want candy! (boom boom boom ba-dum boom)
- Girls ROCK! No, really, they do...
- Go stargazing! June edition
- You heard it here first...
July 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- The study of dinosaurs and the modern world
- Take a step back in time with The Chromatics
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.31.08)
- Coming Sept. 12: BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.30.08)
- Plants: are we using them - or are they using us?
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.29.08)
- Texas' most-viewed butterfly: Buttery Sulphurs
- Science Doesn't Sleep
- Great Caesar's Ghost!
- Looking Back...
- Plains Indian Culture: The Rest of the Story
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.24.08)
- Not to Be Long-Winded, But...
- The Handsomes at Mixers, Elixirs & IMAX
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.23.08)
- Got Venom?
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.22.08)
- The Last Catagonus
- A New Home on the Ice
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.21.08)
- Seven significant changes
- Looking Back...
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.18.08)
- Mantis Madness
- The science of salsa
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.17.08)
- HMNS dinosaurs get the celebrity treatment
- Robots Rock
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.16.08)
- Can you conquer the Tower of Hanoi?
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.15.08)
- My Summer at the Cockrell Butterfly Center
- July 14, 2008: Breaking news from the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.14.08)
- Robo-dogs at the Rally
- Looking back...
- Tasty Treats: snacks to revive the weary fossil-hunter
- Mambo at Mixers!
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.10.08)
- The Black Swallowtail
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.9.08)
- Flickr Photo of the Month: "Leaf's Eye View"
- Water blogged - the worst museum spills and thrills
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.8.08)
- Blowing away the alternative: a case for wind power
- FREE at the HMNS!
- Science Doesn't Sleep (6.7.08)
- Paul's Fourth of July Picnic Piñata
- Looking Back...
- Big BEETLE Bonanza!
- Cold ice & warm socks
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.3.08)
- What did Leonardo da Vinci eat?
- Mystery Skeleton - Update 4
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.2.08)
- Go stargazing! July edition
- Fossil and Fact Finding: Digging Dimetrodons
- Science Doesn't Sleep (7.1.08)
August 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Plastination: Interview with Dr. Gunther von Hagens, inventor and anatomist
- Luxurious Longwings
- Looking Back...
- Terra Cotta Warriors: An army frozen in time
- Spirits & Skeletons 2008
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.28.08)
- Contest Winner: What's YOUR Greatest Adventure?
- Summer Encounters - Brazos Bend State Park
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.27.08)
- A Whale of a Tale
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.26.08)
- Behind-the-Scenes: Insect Photo Safari
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.25.08)
- Fly Me to the Moon - on Apollo 11
- VIDEO: The mummified dinosaur Leonardo - too good to be true?
- Looking back...
- Michael Phelps and solar power - what's the connection?
- Photo From You: Insect Identification
- Mixers, Elixirs, & IMAX 2008 - tell us what you think!
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.21.08)
- Making way for BODY WORLDS, the changing face of the HMNS basement
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.20.08)
- VIDEO: Explore The Wiess Energy Hall
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.19.08)
- One tough decision...
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.18.08)
- Eight is Enough?
- August Flickr Photo of the Month: Rice Paper Butterfly
- Looking back...
- Bug Geeks
- Grady Gaines: A Virtual History of R&B
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.14.08)
- Live From the Poles: North Lake and the Journey Home
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.13.08)
- Shall All Hail the Shale? (Shertain Shources Shay Yesh!)
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.12.08)
- Mourning the Dearly Departed
- Eating The Way To A New Wing
- Science Doesn't Sleep (8.11.08)
- Looking Back...
- VIDEO: Mapping a dinosaur with Dr. Bob Bakker
- Catch a Falling Star!
- There be pirates at the museum
- Historias de la Música Cubano
- Summer Encounters - Around the House
- Audubon Insectarium
- Nature's Smaller Creatures
- Go stargazing! August Edition
- Looking Back...
September 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Happy New Year!
- Draw Dinos Right!
- Rodents use tools to gather food
- Game Day: Moving a 6-ton fossil
- Teachers Cutting Up in the Classroom?
- Need a break from Ike? Come see Body Worlds 2
- Before the Hurricane: Securing the HMNS Greenhouses
- Sept. Flickr Photo of the Month: Museum Reflected
- Glue on, glue off - putting a dinosaur back together again
- If I Owned a Jewelry Store
- HMNS to reopen Sept. 18
- UPDATE: HMNS remains closed Sept. 17
- UPDATE: HMNS remains closed tomorrow, Sept. 16
- UPDATE: HMNS closed Sept. 14 and 15
- HMNS Closed Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12 - 13
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.11.08) Hurricane Ike Edition
- Who Owns the Arctic?
- UPDATE: The world is still here
- Incidental Herping and Heroes
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.9.08)
- “Websites” to check out this fall
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.8.08)
- Measure for Measure…How much energy is there?
- Looking Back...
- Do the butterflies breed? Your butterfly questions, answered
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.4.08)
- Home Sweet Oil Platform
- Go Stargazing! September Edition
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.3.08)
- Vikings - Fact and Fiction
- Science Doesn't Sleep (9.2.08)
- Olympics withdrawal got you down?
October 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- The Science of Paleoart
- Spirits & Skeletons & Steve
- Creepy Critter Cameo - Caecilian
- A Trick or a Treat?
- Exploring Sri Lanka
- Are You Making a Connection?
- Crickets: Trick or Treat? Let your little one find out at Tricks, Treats, & T-Rex!
- A Tale of Two Rulers
- Do you mind passing the hand sanitizer? I think I'm coming down with a touch of the plague.
- Ike-ster…what a mess of things you made!
- I Sold My Soul to Science
- Giant Atlas Moths fluttering into the Butterfly Center soon
- Cigar boxes and sparkles are the way to a teachers heart!
- Oct. Flickr Photo of the Month: Dino Shadows
- pIRANHA pH pUZZLE
- Your Dino Mummy Questions, Answered
- Sharky-Locks and the Three Gummi Bears
- Adopt A Butterfly - this Saturday
- LEGO: The building blocks of science
- Blog Contest: Draw a Dinosaur!
- Go Stargazing! October edition
- A Tale of Two Beetles
- Beyond the Bones: ABC-13 features Leonardo in 30-minute special
- Energy Hogs and Lava Lamps: An Energy Education Day
- Protection from Predators
November 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- GoodShop online to help the Museum!
- Tunicates & Taxonomy
- Nov. Flickr Photo of the Month - Hemis-face
- What the Heck is a Tues, Wed, Thurs, or Fri?
- What's white and weighs 80,000 lbs.?
- VIDEO: The 12 Days of HMNS
- HOW TO: Pin a Butterfly
- Note: heat from active volcano may damage running shoes.
- Got 5 minutes? Win an iPod Touch!
- How To Start A Museum
- Searching for a needle in a moving haystack...
- I can't find my reading glasses, but I'll manage.
- Draw A Dino Contest: Winners!
- Live from the Field: Until Next Time...
- Coming Dec. 12 - The Birth of Christianity: A Jewish Story
- Living Fossils Living Large
- Live from the Field: Two for One!
- Hummingbirds of the Night
- Live From the Field: Trench Warfare
- Live From the Field: Fossil Prep
- Live From the Field: Mad Max
- Eeeeeeeeeeewww, Roaches!!!!
- Live from the Field: Secodontosaurus Found?
- Live from the field - New Discoveries
- Storm Chaser: Tornadoes
- Go Stargazing! November Edition
- Live from the Field: The Smoking Gun
- Energy: What's Next?
- Live from the fossil field!
- The Quest for High Bear
December 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Looking Back...Happy New Year!
- My love affair with the tropics (how and why I became a biologist)
- 'Tis the Season...
- The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
- Looking Back...Christmas Edition
- HOW TO: pH paper from a Poinsetta
- Merry Christmas Butterfly
- On the Twelfth Day of HMNS...Discover The Woodlands Xploration Station
- I Search, You Search, Erin and I Researched.
- Could T. rex catch a duckbill? And other dino questions answered.
- On the Eleventh Day of HMNS...Odyssey Through Indian Country
- On the Tenth Day of HMNS...Explore the Cosmos at The George Observatory
- On the Ninth Day of HMNS...Peer into the Vault
- The Great Cosmic Year
- On the Eighth Day of HMNS...Meet the Entomologists
- HOW TO: Solve the Mystery of the Mobius
- On the Seventh Day of HMNS...look inside the human body
- HOW TO: Marvelous Marbled Ornaments
- On the Sixth Day of HMNS...hunt dinosaurs with Dr. Bob Bakker
- On the Fifth Day of HMNS...We Like to Move It, Move It
- NASA Fly-By at the George Observatory
- On the Fourth Day of HMNS...Discover The Star of Bethlehem
- On the Third Day of HMNS...meet Prancer!
- On the Second Day of HMNS...shop for Sci-tastic Gifts
- Snow? In Houston? Really?
- On the first day of HMNS...a new exhibit debuts
- Building an exhibit-The Birth of Christianity: A Jewish Story
- BEYONDbones - Now on Alltop
- HOW TO: Christmas Chromatography
- The Flurry was upon us!
- Dino Derby: What was T. rex' top speed?
- Where Have All the Bugs Gone?
- Evaluating Nuclear Energy
- HOW TO: Christmas Chemistry Creations
- At Snow Flurry: Prancer, the Gossiping Reindeer
- Go Stargazing! December Edition
- Book List: This month, dig into archaeology
- The Sphinx Moth: A Work of Art
January 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You
- The Heart of a Collector: 500 pez dispensers don't lie
- Sea-Monkeys Turn You Pink
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Monocular Compound Scope
- The Incredible Journey of the Monarchs - on PBS
- Because One Roach Post Just Isn't Enough
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Mesolite with Fluorapophyllite
- Physics challenge online!
- Searching for Elvis, (Jim, Janice and Jimi)…
- 2009: International Year of Astronomy
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Arrow Tip Lodged in Buffalo Skull
- Butterfly Center Fruit Salad
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Aluminum Wire Car
- Ghosts in the Trees
- Darwin2009: An "Aha!" moment worth celebrating
- Not having fun…Stick your head in it!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing
- Making Baby Bearded Dragons
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Blue-billed Curassow
- Your Friend: The Roach
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Baby Cradle
- Museum Educators Open House -- January 24th is just around the corner!
- The Earth's First Apocalypse: Texas Red Beds, 285 Million Years Ago
- Vote for your favorite Houston Museum
- Poaching and the extinction of the African Elephant
- Go Stargazing! January Edition
- Dec. Flickr Photo of the Month: Museum of Natural Science
- Scientists Play an Inspirational Role
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Accession Ledger
- Book List: The forecast calls for reading
- Celebrating 100: A Centennial of Science
- Happy Birthday, HMNS!
February 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Babes and Chicks: Museum Style
- The Great Raise Houston - Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Smithsonite
- In fide constans... Always loyal [Lucy's Legacy]
- Caves are the Coolest!
- We heart local photographers
- The Siege of Masada: Piecing Together the Puzzle
- Genghis Khan Invades HMNS - This Friday
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Giant Longhorn Beetle
- This month, see a 'Hairy Star!'
- Mantids and Me :)
- This weekend: Body Worlds open for 60 straight hours
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Element III
- Girls Exploring Math and Science at HMNS this Saturday!!
- Mock Mummification
- Genghis Khan & The Battle of Ain Jalut
- Cure Nature Deficit Disorder - Take Your Kids Outside!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Sailor's Valentine [Happy Valentine's Day]
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
- Love Bugs: Personal Interface
- For the Love of Chocolate
- Feb. Flickr Photo of the Month: Lensbaby!
- The gift that keeps on giving: Darwin and the Origin of Species
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Albino Raccoon
- Founder Jimmy Wales loves Wikipedia Loves Art
- Darwin speaks: NatGeo Live Blogging Event
- A day in the life of "Bugs on Wheels"
- Shutterbugs, unite: Wikipedia loves you! [free stuff]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Rhodochrosite
- The draw of Darwin
- Go Stargazing! February Edition
- High Fashion: Hot Wax Batik
- Thank you, onliners!
- Book List: Education is the Key
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Luzon Peacock Swallowtail – Papilio chikae
March 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Stone Money
- Chemistry in the Kitchen: The Science Behind Butter
- Never a Dull Moment
- 100 Years - 100 Objects : Elbaite (on Quartz)
- Free Open House! at the Woodlands Xploration Station
- Save the Date, Save Energy, Help Save the Planet!
- Are you hungry, Houston? Big Bite Nite is coming!
- Late Nights at HMNS!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Falcate Orangetip
- Science Mystery: What came out of the Bearded Dragon's Nose?
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Orange Milkweed by Eloise Thompson
- Katydid...She Did!
- How to Use the HMNS Sundial
- Super Cool Surface Tension
- Just Another Day at the Office
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Palikur Tribe Headdress
- On being prey..
- Jumping spiders – cute, fuzzy, and friendly
- Did you know?
- Understanding Human Evolution: Fongoli Chimpanzees
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Manatee Ribs
- Beautiful Spring-time Butterflies!
- Our baby beardies have new homes!
- Museum closed March 7: It's Gala Time
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Giant Armadillo
- Go Stargazing! March Edition
- Constructing the Genghis Khan Exhibit
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Bailer Shell
- Making Bearded Dragons, Part II: Up for Adoption
- Book List: Conquerors!
April 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- HMNS@100 - Meet Irene Offeman
- The Science of Food: Emulsions on your Salad!
- A Nature Walk through Hermann Park
- Big Bite Nite Photo Contest: Winners!
- 100 Years -100 Objects: Maya Tripod Blackware Vessel
- You don't have to go far to celebrate Earth Day all year!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Diana Blue Morpho
- Poisoning Pesky Pests
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Worm Tube
- Woolly mammoths to walk the earth again?
- True Colors in the Night Sky
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Selection of Mineral Specimens
- The lost fleet of Khubilai Khan
- It’s Easy Being Green
- The egg-zilarating, egg-stravagant, sp-egg-tacular EGG!
- Be a tree hugger! Earth Day at HMNS
- VIDEO: Terra Cotta Warriors set to invade HMNS
- BEYONDbones 500!
- Ankylosaurus at HMNS: 40 Year Mystery Solved
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Pre-Columbian obsidian labrets
- Breaking Bone-Head News!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Corundum
- Up Close and Blurry
- Big Bite Nite Video: The Science of Food - Ice Cream!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Giant sphinx moth
- Chemistry in the Kitchen: The Science Behind Ice Cream
- Contest: Show Us Your Biggest Bite!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Salvaged Bird Casualties
- Go Stargazing! April Edition
- Book List: Astronomy
- Southern Memories & A Spring Plant Sale
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Egg Mass
- Plant Sale for Butterfly Lovers this Saturday, April 4 at HMNS!
- Big Bite Nite Video Series: The Science of Food
- HMNS@100: Henry Attwater - Naturalist
May 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Treasure the Summers of Your Life: Summer Camps at HMNS!
- Up Close and Blurry - Texas edition
- Future Scientist: Meet Olga
- Vulcan? Caprica? Tatooine?
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Asian Wild Dog (Dhole)
- Night at the Museum 2 wages war on IMAX - opening today!
- The quest for immortality
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Northwest Coast Transformation Mask
- Glimpses of Eden: the Pongos Basin of Peru
- Hey Shutterbugs - Freeze Frame's for you!
- Hitting this scene is a sure sign of intelligence!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Giant Long-legged Katydid
- Installing New Exhibits - Terra Cotta Warriors and Diamonds
- Shoo fly…no wait, come back!
- Pinchers, stingers and claws, oh my.
- Behind-The-Scenes: The Kneeling Archer Emerges
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Kodak Baby Brownie Camera
- Adopt A Butterfly - tomorrow!
- Photo from You: Insect Identification
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Spondylus americanus
- Diamonds: Not Just Another Pretty Facet!
- May Book List: Hispanic Culture
- Go Stargazing! May Edition
- This is a test...
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Black Diamond
June 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Phosphophyllite
- June Flickr Photo of the Month: Bananagrams
- Where have all the sunspots gone?
- Mastodons in Manhattan? Or, Pachyderms of the Pleistocene
- Sizzlin’ Cool: Fun Facts for Summer
- 100 Years - 100 Obejcts: Haliotis dalli
- Cool out with Molly & the Ringwalds at Mixers!
- "Bird-Airplane" Collisions and Forensic Ornithology
- Walk like a bird: a dino-track puzzle
- Look What I Found! Exotic insects in the Houston area
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Pink Pigeon
- Conservators - Collections' Heroes
- Blue Suede Shoes, The Handsomes and You!
- Famous Fossil "Ida" (Plate B) Joins Lucy on display in New York
- HMNS Summer Camps: Survivor
- Salsa Nights are back with Mixers & Elixirs!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Thatcher Calculator
- Reasons for the Seasons
- Question for the Curator: Possible hammerstone?
- Gems and Minerals
- 100 years - 100 Objects: King Goliath Beetle
- Bugs are Amazing!
- How much is oil worth?
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Women's Huipil
- Go Stargazing! June Edition
July 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Azurite
- Beetle-mania!
- Soak up the sun - make a sunprint at home!
- It's a rock-n-rolling weekend with The Chromatics
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Aztec Stone Figure
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…Diplodocus
- 100 Years -100 Objects: Chama lazarus
- Road Trip!
- "Have Soul, Will Travel:" Mambo Jazz Kings bring it to Mixers & Elixirs
- Looking Back: 40 Years of Space Travel
- Happy Birthday Year!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Agrias
- Question for the Curator: Did Leonardo have a Crop?
- High-energy salsa - this Friday with Mango Punch!
- Dead Reckoning: Part 2 of our Geocache Adventure
- Explore Evolution with Lucy's Legacy
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Adamite
- Texas Wins Big: NEED State Program of the Year
- Dead Reckoning
- British rock is back at Mixers & Elixirs with The Fab 5 - this Friday!
- Terra Cotta Warriors myths...busted!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Evelyn and Herbert Frensley Hall of African Wildlife and Graham Family Presentation of Ecology and Conservation Biomes
- I Heart Pollinators!
- Go Stargazing! July edition
- Book List: Warfare and Soldiers
August 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Lucy, Out of Africa. Not!
- Birthplace: Pennsylvania? US Oil Turns 150 Today
- Steamy salsa night closes out the summer
- Meet Charro, our new resident iguana!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Jeremejevite
- Partial Eclipse of the Eclipse: Report from Shanghai
- Send help now!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Conus adamsonii
- Energy Vampires or the Phantom Load Menace
- Soul-soothing to heart-pounding performance this Friday night
- The Truth is in the Tooth
- Mighty Gorgosaurus, felled by...brain cancer? [Pete Larson]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Ceramic Plate
- Re-connecting with the past: recent developments in Mongolia
- Turn up the heat! Grupo Batacha at Mixers & Elixirs this Friday
- When you wish upon a shooting star...it's probably a meteoroid
- See the Eighth Wonder of the World in Style
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Folding Sundial
- Southern Arizona: A Bug Geek's Paradise!
- Darwin’s Pony…and the Bulldog Who Loved Horses
- They're a Music Machine: Commercial Art at Mixers & Elixirs Friday!
- Go Stargazing! August Edition
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Egyptian Goose
- Book List: Mythical Creatures
September 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- New Addition to the Cockrell Butterfly Center!
- What Galileo Saw
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Feather Poncho
- Book List: Imaginary Places
- HMNS at Sugar Land: Transforming a prison into a museum
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Starfish Symbiosis
- How To: Make Terra Cotta Armor!
- Apocalypto -- 150 AD
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Conus Saurus
- Au reservoir: A guide to new oil discoveries
- Lucy’s Monstrous Misfits II: Upside-Down Mastodon
- Attention: Butterfly Enthusiasts!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Eccentric Flint
- The Clothes Make the Warrior
- Photos: People of the Amazon
- Dimetrodon, Diplocaulus, and the Permian Treasure Trove
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Loriolaster mirabilis
- Lucy’s Monstrous Misfits: The Moose-Giraffe
- Sharks are our friends!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Morpho cypris
- Hello! And who are you?
- Quirky Museum History: Planetarium Jewelry
- Go Stargazing! September Edition
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Diplodocus
- Book List: Water, from snowflakes to African ponds
- Terra Cotta Warrior Escapes!
October 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Dead Man's Party - Dia de los Muertos
- The Monster Mash, IS a Museum Smash!
- Punkin, my Halloween spider
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Okapia johnstoni
- The colors of Fall... in some places anyway!
- GEMS 2010 - Share your knowledge!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Teinopalpus Imperialis
- It's National Magic Week! FREE Magic Performance, 1 p.m. Saturday
- Join Us for Astronomy Day! This Saturday, at the George Observatory
- Ice Age Extinctions and Dino-Plagues
- Towards Other Earths [Lecture]
- Light Up My Life
- Is that a Brown Recluse??
- Happy Birthday George Observatory!
- Lucy's Great Mystery: Part 2
- What can you do with 63 hours?
- HMNS at Sugar Land: Installing the new Dig Pit
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Copper
- Lucy’s Great Mystery: How Could Australopithecus Survive and Evolve Into Us?
- Go Stargazing! October Edition
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Sponge encrusting a Cephalopod
- Fall Butterflies in Houston
- Lucy, meet Ardi
- A Pipe Dream
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Field Microscope
November 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- December Book List: Holiday Classics
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Rhodochrosite
- Vanishing Worlds – Still Vanishing
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Pre-Columbian figurine fragments
- Photo From You: Insect Identification
- 100 Years 100 Objects: Merychippus
- Lucy’s Great Mystery: Part 3
- Reminder: GEMS booth host applications due on November 20th!!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Specimens of the Dooley-Selden Expedition
- A Lost Persian Army Returns
- Leonids Meteor Shower Tonight!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Nodipecten fragosus
- Watch out for that space boulder!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Ankylosaurus
- Friday Night Lights
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Ludlockite
- 2012: It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
- A Farewell to Claude Levi-Strauss
- HMNS Expansion: Breaking Ground Nov. 19!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Zuni Pottery
- Moths: Butterflies' Mysterious Cousins
- Find Fun Fossils at Dino Days 2009! This Saturday
- Go Stargazing! November Edition
- Book List: The Amazon and Rainforests
- 100 Years - 100 Objects - Spondylus Linguafelis
December 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- HMNS' 100th year comes to a close...
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Paradise Birdwing
- Tis the Season to be worried about butterflies!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Pholidocercus hassiacus
- 100 Years 100 Objects: Morganite
- When Fiction becomes Reality… [James Rollins]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Spadefoot Toad
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Spodumene
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Brachiopod
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Child Sandal
- HMNS: Here's to 101! [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Life Through Time Mural
- Magic: The Science of Wonder [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects:Sextant
- Ho, Ho, Hoax-Nay to the Nay-sayers!
- Discover: HMNS at Sugar Land [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Seed Fern
- Revealed: Gem Vault [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Madagascar Sunset Moth
- The Unconquered Sun: Winter Solstice Today!
- Behind the Scenes: HMNS Greenhouses [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Bodmer Print
- Glimpse: Spirits & Headhunters [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Trilobites
- Marvel: Faberge [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Jamaican Giant Swallowtail
- Shop: The Perfect Gift [12 Days of HMNS]
- Of gomphotheres, early American Indians, the Lazarus effect and the end of the world
- 100 years - 100 Objects: Smilodon
- Investigate: The Star of Bethlehem [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Zoisite
- Preview: Disney's A Christmas Carol [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Muga Silk Moth
- Preview: The Chronicles of Narnia [12 Days of HMNS]
- Explore: Snow Science [12 Days of HMNS]
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Hymeneae Flower in Amber
- 100 Year - 100 Objects: Beryl
- New varmits in Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Atlas Moth
- Texas Redbeds - Another 100 Year Anniversary to Celebrate!
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Diplodocus Brain Case
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Silver with Calcite
- If All the Dinos Died on One Terrible Weekend – Where are All the Bodies?
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Cypraea cervus
- HMNS in TV Land - This Sunday!
- Go Stargazing! December Edition
- 100 Years - 100 Objects: Spanish Moon Moth
- What Galileo Almost Saw
- When a Registrar/Soviet Studies major examines Faberge...
January 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Taking Flight: Art in the Cockrell Butterfly Center
- We'll, I'll be a Monkey's Uncle. Or an Orangutan's.
- The Shadow Knows
- Crystals are Cool: Making Rock Candy
- Genetics and Archaeology: Helping Us Understand the Past
- Malaysia – The Edible Tropics
- A Rare Gull, an Innocent Query, and a Colossal Fraud
- Frog-sicles Anyone?
- Is anyone else out there? [Life in the Universe]
- Insects and Orchids: An Evolutionary Journey
- Examining the Aftermath of Hurricane Ike
- Discovery! Mass Burial of Ancient Red Beds Amphibians Uncovered
- When Fiction Becomes Reality [Steve Berry]
- Here Comes the Sun
- Go Stargazing! January Edition
- Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton!
February 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Abracadabra! Magic exhibit now open
- Magic! Houdini's Needles and Thread
- Charcoal, Bio Char and Nanotechnology
- Happy New (Chinese) Year!
- Coincidence or Cooperation? Amazon Feathers & Modern Jewels
- The Principles of Magic Revealed
- A Valentine's Day Suprise, A Pink Grasshopper!
- Girls Explore Math and Science at HMNS - THIS SATURDAY!
- Free SEM Images! Where do I sign up?
- Magic! Prepare to be dazzled
- Taking Flight: A Second Look at New Art in the Cockrell Butterfly Center
- Hug-A-Bug, This Saturday!
- Get your hands on science!
- The Real Blob! The Truth About Slime Molds
- Magic: The Science of Wonder
- Diplocaulus: The Boomerang-Head Amphibian
- Go Stargazing! February Edition
- The Light Stuff
March 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Spicy Science: Plant Evolution [Big Bite Nite]
- Which raptor turned into the first bird?
- The Discoverie of Witchcraft
- Butterfly Gardener Alert!
- Skull Slushies - What’s inside a dinosaur’s skull?
- Don’t Stop to Smell the Rotten Roses
- Magic! The Rapping Hand
- Life: A New Series from the Discovery Channel
- Everything you need to know about the Hubble Telescope
- Rev. Butter Turns Up the Heat at Big Bite Nite April 29!
- Magic! The "Tayade Indian Cups"
- Christmas in March? I Want Coal Year Around
- Science Friday: DNA Testing
- Raptors - Group Hunters or Cannibals?
- Connecting the Dots
- Magic! The “Girl Without a Middle”
- Imperial Dining with the Tsars
- Webisode: Space Glasses! [Hubble 3D]
- For all the future Entomologists out there...
- Go Stargazing! March Edition
- The Eyes Have It: Evolutionary Development and DNA
- Hittin' the road with the HMNS Paleo crew!
April 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Lessons from Faberge: Skill Trumps Modern Technology
- Beautiful, but Dangerous: the Fascinating Pitcher Plant
- The Roche Limit: Why does Saturn have rings?
- Whole-Hole Catalogue: The Horned Meat-eater Ceratosaurus
- Webisode: Space is an Open Book Exam [Hubble 3D]
- A priest and a scientist walk into a bar...
- Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution
- Magic! Radio Cabinet and Come Along Cuffs
- Photo From You: Insect Identification
- Webisode: Getting Dressed [Hubble 3D]
- Spicy Cocktails: Anvil's Ginger Beer [Big Bite Nite]
- Whole Hole Catalogue - How to be a Dino-Skull Sleuth
- It's ice, ice baby?
- Tales from the Magic Crypt
- A Pinky’s Promise
- Webisode: The Swim Test! [Hubble 3d]
- Magic! Doll's House Illusion and the Crystal Clock
- You weren't the only one who found eggs this Easter!
- Go Stargazing! April Edition
- New Furry Friends for the Butterfly Center!
- Secrets of the Silk Road - Coming Soon to HMNS!
May 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Can you spell g-a-u-t-e-n-g-e-n-s-i-s?
- Jupiter loses a belt
- Jurassic Puckering - Kissing Fish and Salt Water Evolution
- Photo From You:Insect Identification
- Webisode: Tools of the Trade [Hubble 3D]
- Magic! Spotlight: Magician Curt Miller
- Ice Planet: Earth
- Flat-Footed Reptiles to High Stepping Chickens
- Tales from the Magic Crypt, Part 2: Living Artifacts
- Deepwater
- Top 10 Animal Power Moves
- Digging Sideways For Science
- Private and Public Museum Collections - Rules and Guidelines for exhibitions
- Webisode: A Wild Ride [Hubble 3D]
- Dimetrodon Gives us a Nod
- Go Stargazing! May Edition
- History of the HMNS Guild
June 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Go Stargazing! July Edition
- What a Croc!
- Summer Nights: Tell me more, tell me more
- Your Archaeopteryx Questions: Answered! [Pete Larson]
- The Animals of Solnhofen - Geosaurus
- Early Risers: You're In For A Treat! June brings Blazing Comet & Lunar Eclipse
- Summer Science Adventures!
- Focus On: The Thermopolis Archaeopteryx [Pete Larson]
- Rock Steady!
- Deepwater Update
- Archimedes, Atoms and Archaeopteryx
- Insect Insight: Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
- How To Make a Perfect Fish - Two Views
- Join us! Live Online Discussion with Paleontologist Pete Larson on June 17
- Taste Bud Trickery
- The Formation and Preservation of the Solnhofen Fossils
- Go Stargazing! June Edition
July 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- You Asked - We Answered! Lois q&a
- To the Corpse Flower Community: Thank you!
- The Man Who Made Fossil Fish Famous
- Beauty is in the eye – or sometimes nose – of the beholder
- Texas' Big Bend:A Photographic Adventure
- Lois: What Happens Next [Corpse Flower]
- BLOOM! [Corpse Flower]
- VIDEO: The Beginning of the Bloom? [Corpse Flower]
- Corpse Flower Update! July 21, 2010
- All Summer Long
- Will Lois Begin To Bloom Tonight? [7.20.10]
- Corpse Flower Update! July 20, 2010
- The Great Planet Race
- The Latest on Lois: It's Getting Hot in There!
- Shaking Hands Now
- A Song for Lois [Corpse Flower]
- What's Up With Lois?
- Button, button. Who's got the button?
- An Ode to Lois: Corpse Flower Haiku
- SATURDAY: Online Chat with Zac & @CorpzFlowrLois
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 14 & 15
- Archaeopteryx and Friends
- Funky Town! A Playlist for our Favorite Stinky Plant
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 13
- VIDEO: The Latest On Lois [Corpse Flower]
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 12
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 11
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 10
- Corpse Flower Watch: Webcam!
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 9
- How To Stuff Your Archaeopteryx For Thanksgiving
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 8
- Corpse Flower Watch: Day 7
- The Amazing Amorphophallus - See It at HMNS!
- Focus On: Trackway - The Last 30 Feet of Life [Pete Larson]
- Summer Adventures Continue
August 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Deepwater Update
- Photo Show in the Butterfly Center
- Shhh... Science in action
- Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite!!
- Spot the Planet Uranus with the Naked Eye
- How To Evolve a Wing
- Have fun and save money? Too good to be true? Not any more
- What’s Blooming Now in the Butterfly Center?
- Camels of the Silk Road - Free Family Event! [Guest Post]
- Secrets of the Silk Road - Revealed! [Online Chat]
- As the Dung Ball Rolls...
- ROBOTS! New Exhibit Now Open – HMNS at Sugar Land!
- Secrets of the Silk Road: The Tarim Basin
- we heart geeks [wordcamp houston]
- Solnhofen - Birthplace of Pterodactyls
- Time Lapse: Corpse Flower + Upcoming Lois Events!
- Get Smart : Meter or grid?
- Ghost Bird – soon showing at a museum near you!
- Go Stargazing! August Edition
September 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- This October, Celebrate at HMNS Sugar Land
- TONIGHT: Can the Gulf Survive? [National Geographic]
- Plant Sale: This Saturday
- HMNS @ Sugar Land - A History of Two Camp
- Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America through Galveston Island
- Poetry About Energy
- Make Your Own Grape Jelly
- Shine on Harvest Moon
- Silk Road Q&A with Curator Dirk
- Homeosaurus a Living Fossil
- “Returning to the Light”
- Make Your Own Great Grape Jelly!
- Fossil Snake Scan: Preliminary Results
- New Bontebok Mount in African Hall
- An evolutionary link? Fossil Snake Scan tomorrow!
- Science in Action: Live Tweeting Fossil Snake Scanning Friday
- Mummies of the Tarim Basin
- Mala-what? Walk Through our Malacology Hall
- Adventures Among Ants
- Archaeopteryx - The Fossil that Proved Darwin was Right
- Go Stargazing! September Edition
October 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Dino Days 2010 and the Create-a-saurus Contest for kids!
- The Frustrating Science of Earthquake Prediction
- Where do we go from here
- Family Night at HMNS!
- Of Chinese mummies, and a relative of a famous German WWI fighter pilot
- HMNS Expansion: The Story So Far
- See Comet Hartley 2!
- There be pirates at HMNS
- Boo! Frightfully Fun Halloween Events at HMNS
- Edward Hitchcock
- Astronomy Day 2010
- Beach Bugs!
- How To Rule the Sea: A Guide for Privateers 1500 - 1800s [Real Pirates]
- Preview our new web site! [new.hmns.org]
- Go Stargazing! October Edition
- New Blogger! Meet Ben, the Maritime Man [Real Pirates]
- Great Swarms of Bees!
- New Blogger! Meet Susanna, HMNS Construction Project Manager
November 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Meet our Blushing Beauties!
- Pirates: Romance Versus Reality
- Solar Energy in Texas
- How Far are the Stars? (part 1)
- Oh, the weather outside is...SNOW FLURRY!
- Create-a-saurus Coloring Contest Winners!!
- Don't Tell the Muggles - Harry Potter Opens Today in IMAX at HMNS!
- WINNERS! Harry Potter Midnight Madness Ticket Giveaway
- Happy America Recycles Day! Bring your old cell phone to HMNS, See Wild Ocean 3D Free
- Archaeopteryx has arrived in Sugar Land!
- Harry Potter Midnight Madness - ticket giveaway!
- Jean Laffite: Texas Pirate
- Secrets of the Silk Road: Trade
- Second Saturday - Celebrating Texas Pioneers
- Dead skin, sweat, and DUST MITES!!!
- Harry Potter Midnight Madness at HMNS!
- Great Migrations - New Series Debuts Sunday on NatGeo
- Go Stargazing! November Edition
- The Jolly Roger? Not so Jolly.
December 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Your Favorites: Top 10 Videos of 2010!
- Ghosts of the Whydah [Real Pirates Exhibit]
- Giant African Millipedes are back!
- Invest in CDs: A Christmas Story
- Yes, You Do Talk Like a Pirate!
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Trappings of Yingpan Man [Dec. 2010]
- Coming Soon: Total Eclipse of the Moon! [Dec. 21, 2010]
- Real Pirates: Attackers, Thieves...Equal Opportunity Employers?
- Dimetrodon Discovery! [VIDEO]
- The Silk Road: A Timeless Story
- Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum
- Night Owls enjoyed a little Midnight Madness!
- Festivals of the World at HMNS Sugar Land
- Tiny HMNS! [Expansion Update]
- Discovery! HMNS Paleo Field Team Unearths Extremely Rare Dimetrodon
- Shark Progressives in the Jurassic Period
- Apples to Apples [Exploring Solar Energy]
- Go Stargazing! December Edition
January 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Camels of the Wild West [Distinguished Lecture 2/8!]
- Ankylosaurs aren’t very aerodynamic*
- The Mythology of Love [Museum Store]
- Born to be Wild 3D - Coming Soon to IMAX!
- Free Event for Educators this Saturday!
- Rice hosts Space Frontiers Lecture Series! [Free]
- ANTS! [Cockrell Butterfly Center]
- Piracy in the Far East: A Family Affair [Women Pirates, Part 2]
- Quetzalcoatlas! Grand Hall Display Through Monday
- Sea Rex 3D swims into IMAX!
- Quetzalcoatlus: Texas Pterosaur [Event Friday, 1/14!]
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Pirate Treasure [Jan. 2011]
- Women Pirates - Scourges of the High Seas! [Part 1]
- Energy New Year: Predictions and Resolutions
- Expansion: Major Progress! [Photos]
- The Ghost Sharks of The Jurassic
- Go Stargazing! January Edition
February 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Texas Exhibition! Spotlight on David Crockett
- Rabbit in the Moon
- In My New Skin
- Your questions, answered: Do we know when chimaeras shifted to deep-water habitats?
- GEMS (girls exploring math and science) at HMNS this Saturday!
- Texas! Exhibition: Spotlight on Stephen F. Austin
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Butterflies! [Feb. 2011]
- Human Evolution: The Year 2010 in Review (Part 2)
- The Numbers Are In: Texas Power Consumption in 2010
- What's Your Sign? OR How The Zodiac Came To Be
- Hey Texan! What do YOU know about the Lone Star State?
- Expansion Update! New Time Lapse Video
- You know what time it is? Valentine's Time.
- Real Pirates: Closing Weekend!
- Go Stargazing! February 2011 Edition
- Human evolution: the year 2010 in review (Part 1)
March 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Quanah Parker: Part 3
- How Far are the Stars? (part 2)
- Born To Be Wild 3D - Opens in Two Weeks!
- UPDATE: HMNS Expansion Tops Out!
- Quanah Parker: Part 2
- Kid's Reading List! Texas Tales
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Sam Houston! [March 2011]
- Quanah Parker
- The Challenger Learning Center Inspires!
- Changes in the World and Their Effect on Energy
- Protein-eating butterflies and sex-changing plants
- Parties at HMNS Rock! [Pun Intended]
- Texas Exhibition! Spotlight on Sam Houston
- The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest Opens Friday!
- Space Geeks! Wanna meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson? [Yes. You do.]
- Final Frontier: Free Lecture Series at Rice University
- Go Stargazing! March Edition
- Deep Ancestry: Our Story
April 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- How Far Are the Stars? (part 3)
- Earth Day at HMNS April 30, 2011
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Texas Skies! [April 2011]
- Get your hands on science!
- America’s New Energy Policy
- Chocolate
- Special Events - Finding that perfect color for your event
- Final Frontier: Free Lecture Series at Rice University
- Building a Texas-Sized Exhibition
- Celebrate Earth Day 2011 at HMNS!
- #SpaceGeeks Tweetup Tuesday!
- Born To Be Wild 3D - Now Showing!
- Photo from You: Insect Identification
- The Times, they are a Changing
- Looking for Clues to the Origins of the Universe
- Spring Plant Sale!! This Saturday, 4/9
- Go Stargazing: April Edition
- April Fools! [4.1.11]
May 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Special Summer Openings - George Observatory
- Do You Know Plants?
- Lots of fun for the loooooong weekend!
- New Exhibit Now Open! Six Thousand Years of Ukrainian History
- Born to be Wild 3D - Baby Orangutans!!
- Update: Expansion Exoskeleton and Infrastructure
- Chak Ek'
- Old and new: Modern Ukraine and the Trypilian culture
- All I Really Want to Do: My Time at OTC
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Summertime! [May 2011]
- AAM is Coming to Houston!
- Corpse Flower Lois Update – The Photosynthetic Phase
- GyroXtreme - a Human-Powered Gyroscope!
- What do you know about 2012? [Quiz]
- Born to be Wild - in IMAX 3D
- “Come and Take It!” [Texas Exhibit]
- 2012: Did the Maya Predict an Apocalypse?
- Go Stargazing! May Edition
- What in the World is THAT!!??
June 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Name Our New Corpse Flower!
- Name That Plant! [Win 2 Butterfly Center Tickets]
- Discover Ancient Ukraine! [PHOTOS]
- Changing Energy Policies Across the Globe
- Solar Sunspots Hibernation?
- Summer Campers Of The Week: Robolab and Battlebots!
- Dino Gangs? Live Chat Wednesday, June 22!
- The Reinforcement Crew [HMNS at AAM]
- Prehistoric Monsters: Quetzalcoatlus!
- Ancient Ukraine: The Bronze Age
- Summer Camper of the Week: Get Set To Be A Vet!
- Flickr Photo of the Month: Fiddle! [June 2011]
- Solve a Mystery 75 Years in the Making - Who First Climbed Everest
- EXPANSION VIDEO: A Year In 3 Minutes
- The Women of Texas! The Exhibition
- Photo From You: Insect Identification
- Go Stargazing! June Edition
July 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- CONTEST! Flashback to 1955 - and Win!
- Audrey Update!
- Flickr Photo of The Month: Dinosaurs!
- Dr. Bob Bakker - Special Appearance!
- Most Distant Quasar Discovered
- Meet Audrey! [Corpse Flower]
- Different Presidents, Same Notes
- Name Our New Corpse Flower: Voting Time!
- Whats cooking Doc?
- Iconic Phrases and the Texas Revolution
- Name Our New Corpse Flower!
- Magic and Museums
- VIDEO: Our New Corpse Flower. Help Us Name Her!
- All Along the Watch Tower: United States Military and Renewable Energy
- Ancient Ukraine: The Middle and Late Bronze Age
- Late-Breaking Texas History
- Go Stargazing! July Edition
- Houston Press Web Awards: HMNS Best Flickr Pool!
August 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- August Flickr Photo of the Month: Terra Cotta Warriors!
- Labor Day! Fun For The Long Weekend At HMNS
- Texas Pride! [Exhibition Final Week]
- The Scythians [Ancient Ukraine]
- Richard Dowling, The Battle of Sabine Pass, and The Davis Guards Medal
- David Brady Shared The Love!
- Oil Spills and their Impact on the Environment
- Members...And Monsters! [The Prehistoric Kind]
- HIPS HIPS HURRAY! [Dimetrodon Fossil Update]
- The Wiess Energy Hall has a new addition!!
- Plants of the Cockrell Butterfly Center: Guaiacum officinale
- The Texas Longhorn
- FIELD TRIP!!! Bug Hunting in Southeast Texas
- Authenticating Peru’s Unique Unicorn
- Megalodon: The Ultimate Shark
- Go Stargazing! August Edition
- Elixir - A History of Water and Humankind
September 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Ride on a Shooting Star: Space Fuel
- September Flickr Photo of the Month: Baby Alligators!
- “Solve It!” Crime Lab Family Event
- Cockrell Butterfly Center Fall Plant Sale Oct. 8!
- Hubble 3D is back for a limited time!
- Museum District Day is this Saturday!
- Crime Lab Detective Now Open at HMNS at Sugar Land
- Confession of a Bookoholic
- HMNS Expansion Update: September 2011
- Rice NASAversary!
- Go Stargazing! September Edition
- Water on Mars?
October 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Tagging Monarchs at HMNS
- Modern Maya, flying kites and Day of the Dead celebrations.
- Expansion Update! [October 2011]
- Dispatches From South Dakota: Willie The Dimetrodon [Day 4]
- Dispatches From South Dakota: Willie The Dimetrodon [Day 3]
- Celebrate The International Year Of Chemistry!
- Dispatches From South Dakota: Willie The Dimetrodon [Day 2]
- Live From The Field: Willie The Dimetrodon
- Go Stargazing! October Edition
- The Bear Necessities
November 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- A Short Biography of the Foucault Pendulum.
- The Celestial Sea
- Black Hills Institute
- Watching the River Flow
- Le Monde des Aztèques [The World of the Aztecs]
- Go Stargazing! November Edition
- Flashpoint of Empires - The Archaeological Rediscovery of Jamestown
- Meet Boo and Hiss the Cockrell Butterfly Center's Newest Additions!
- Crime Lab Detective Update
January 2012 ( View complete archive page )
February 2012 ( View complete archive page )
March 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Check out this Megalodon's megawatt smile, and step inside if you dare
- Terra Cotta Take Two: The warriors are back in Warriors, Tombs and Temples, opening Friday
- Why James Delgado > James Cameron: See a real underwater explorer speak April 12
- Those who can, teach: Tracking the Painted Lady life cycle with pasta
- Why the Unsinkable Molly Brown would've sunk: A conversation with great-granddaughter Helen Benziger
- Stage-five clingers: Learn to grow epiphytes with Zac Saturday, March 24
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: March 2012
- Is that an Art Car? My stormy day with Sean Casey, tornado chaser
- Cockrell Butterfly Center Spring Plant Sale
April 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Girls just wanna have sun: Confessions of a compulsive solar eclipse chaser
- Stealth Frog-oid in the Permian Ponds: The Panzer Mudpuppy and its Sonar
- Still yearning for Earth Day learning? Join us April 28 for HMNS' museum-wide celebration!
- Putting the pieces together: Civil War exhibit helps marine archaeologist identify shipwreck artifacts
- Educator How-To: We'll See You on the Dark (and Light and Far) Side of the Moon
- Stop and smell the orchids at the third annual Orchid Show and Sale April 21 & 22
- Distinguished Lecture Series: Gain new perspective on a local Civil War hero April 24
- A different kind of dancing robot: Robotic dinos hit HMNS Sugar Land Saturday
- Paleontological Pandemonium! It's happening: Read on
- Party like it's 1912 at Titanic VIP nite — this Thursday!
- Not your average Easter egg: Find the Fabergé Imperial Diamond Trellis Egg at HMNS for one week only
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: April 2012
- Calling all creatives: The 2012 Art, Essay and Media contest is accepting entrants grades K-12
May 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Bakker blogs: You can't have a dinosaur as a pet, but you sure can pet a dinosaur!
- Discovery Dome hits the George Observatory for weekends this summer!
- Member mania over the new Hall of Paleontology: Read their feedback and get here yourself!
- Send your girls careening toward a career in hard sciences with HMNS summer camps
- Bakker blogs: Bulldozer worms and the end of peace on the ocean floor
- Weird (Careers in) Science: Meet Keith Strasser — scientific sculptor extraordinaire
- She has a gift: 7-year-old Hannah Aaronson lends a rare Anomalocaris to HMNS' new Hall of Paleontology
- The votes have been tallied: Your new mascot is called...
- A Sleeping Beauty rears up in the Hall of Paleontology: Watch the time-lapse video of the installation of our new Diplodocus
- Educator How-To: Make a compass with a fish. A fish? Yes, a fish.
- The making of a moniker: How Lane got his name and a Wyoming teenager got a spot in the history books
- It's Family Space Day at the George on Saturday: Take your family to the Moon!
- Introducing Lane, a mummified Triceratops with a new address at 5555 Hermann Park Dr.
- What's in a name? Prizes, for one thing! VOTE for your favorite moniker and grant the submittor a guided tour of the new paleo hall
- Dinosaur dialogue: Watch our own David Temple talk paleo on Great Day San Antonio
- Help us help you: Name our new paleontological pal and win a guided tour of the new Hall of Paleontology!
- Wyrex's fancy footwork and tender hands: Get to know this tyrannosaur's softer side
- Why you should care about Wyrex: Meet his groundbreaking feet and say hello to our new mascot
- Because we love your mom, too: Save 10% when you shop the HMNS Museum Store for Mother's Day
- A New "Lady" in Town, Part II: Priscilla the loner mastodon was meatier than a mammoth, but he was no meathead
- As big as it gets: Celebrate a super(moon) Cinco de Mayo at the George Observatory
- A New "Lady" in Town, Part I: Why Priscilla the mastodon isn't a mammoth at all
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: May 2012
- Priscilla, queen of the paleo hall: Our mastodon has a story worthy of the silver screen
June 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Bountiful butterflies plus more on moths: Why you should appreciate both this summer
- The LaB 5555 launch had a serious bite: Read patron reactions and add your own!
- Educator How-To: Teaching taxonomy with simple sorting exercises
- Recipe for a successful Sunday night in: Watch HMNS' KTRK special June 24 at 10:35 p.m.
- Mixers remixed: Introducing LaB 5555, our new after-hours, adults-only scientific shindig
- On Happy Puppies, "Bugs" and Honorary Dinos: A statement by Dr. Robert T. Bakker
- Bakker Blogs: The kleptomania continues with a Sid Vicious Julieraptor — Dino Rustlers Part II
- Bakker Blogs: Rapscallion dino rustlers and the paleontological gold rush of the American West
- Sugar Land Scouts: Enroll today in Citizenship and the Environment!
- Weird (Careers in) Science: Scientific Illustrator Julius Csotonyi finds inspiration in his own backyard
- Check out your new HMNS with a video tour of the new Dan L Duncan Family Wing and Hall of Paleontology!
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: June 2012
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of Venus in transit June 5
- Have some fun with the family this Friday at HMNS Sugar Land's Animal Secrets exhibit!
July 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Sweet classes in Sugar Land: Build your own butterfly garden this Saturday
- Educator How-to: Teach archaeology with edible excavation
- Bringing the wonder to you: Science on Stage
- Oh, just another day in the life of exhibits: Installation in pictures (with inanimate commentary)
- Join HMNS at the Bridal Extravaganza Show this weekend to talk weddings with a twist
- There's no crying in the Grand Hall: Cool off with Cryology - the study of freezing - at Friday's LaB 5555
- Hit HMNS Sugar Land Friday night to solve Chemistry Mysteries and disco dance the night away
- Who were the Maya? Who would you have been in ancient Mexico?
- Family Space Day at the George: Experience the Challenger Learning Center with your kids, plus bottle rockets!
- Diary of a dig: A major bailout, leaping lizards and a tiny discovery in Seymour
- World-renowned malacologist Guido Poppe visits HMNS' "magnificent" Hall of Malacology
- HMNS in the news: Newly discovered mineral has ties to our permanent collection
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: July 2012
August 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Once in a blue moon: Kick off your Labor Day with the last blue moon 'til 2015
- Last chance to see Terra Cotta Warriors — EVER! Hurry in before the army moves out Sept. 3
- Spotlight on Outreach: Embrace the oddballs with the Vertebrates version of HMNS' Wildlife on Wheels
- Remembering Neil Armstrong: The first man on the moon dies at 82
- Educator How-To: Build your own personal hovercraft
- LEGO my Robotics! New course to be offered at HMNS Main and HMNS at Sugar Land beginning in September
- Just another day at HMNS: Angry rattlesnakes, gecko cooling and non-stop learning in the Education Department
- Wash, rinse and repeat: See pics from Paleo Wash Day at HMNS Sugar Land
- Join HMNS Sugar Land for a rockin' good time at Friday Family Fun Night
- Get ginned up at LaB 5555 on Friday and learn the chemistry behind a good cocktail
- Shark Week turns 25: Our six ways to celebrate
- The Seymour Blob: Putting something in your head from the ground beneath your feet
- Up for a challenge? Join us at the George Observatory on Saturday for Rocket Day, get special access to simulated space flight!
- Proof you can shower once a year and still get people excited: The Perseid Meteor Shower hits Saturday!
- Seeing Stars With James Wooten: August 2012
- Ain't no party like a Party Smarty: Plan your child's next birthday bash with HMNS!
September 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Energy Endeavors Part II: Climbing around coal-fired plants and a day in the life of a drill bit
- Energy Endeavors Part I: Teachers trek Texas in a week-long energy quest
- It's gonna be notorious: Join HMNS at the Girl Scouts' B.I.G. Event next Saturday
- It's more than a thirsty Thursday: All hail hunger at Big Bite Nite Sept. 27
- Have a Bam! moment at lunch this year: You have the power to cut waste at lunch hour
- Educator How-To: Making the Moon out of Cheese (and Crackers!)
- Talk Like a Pirate Day has passed, now onto another stellar holiday: International Observe the Moon Day!
- What's 100 years old, fascinating and closing this weekend? Titanic, of course!
- Kathy Reichs of Bones (Temperance Brennan IRL) visits HMNS and talks scientific vs. script-writing, creating the "crimedy" & more
- Quest for Conservation: New Sugar Land exhibit teaches smart energy use
- Family Space Day is Sept. 15 — one of only two left in 2012!
- It's the bee's knees: Join us for LaB 5555 Friday and learn all about the art of beekeeping!
- Spotlight on Staff: James Talmage recognized for flying 3,000 missions (and taking 100,000 students) to the moon
- SySTEMatic change: How HMNS is changing education and making math marvelous
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: September 2012
- Fall for energy conservation: A tip as we (hopefully) approach cooler temps
October 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Add it up: Doing the math on electric cars
- Sugar Skull How-To Part II: Royal icing’s not just for royals
- A Spirits & Skeletons wrap-up: 4,000+ guests, 13 Cruella Devilles and nearly 500 pictures
- Making slime one step at a time: Join our birthday party team as they cook up dino boogers!
- Look smart with jewelry that fuses fashion and science — only at HMNS!
- News alert: HMNS field expedition uncovers terrifying evidence of prehistoric zombies?!
- Extra! Extra! Our dinosaur bath makes front page news and Dr. Bakker's back in town
- The next time somebody bugs you to cook, cook bugs! We recommend these Chocolate Chirp Cookies
- What's ancient, allegedly apocalyptic and opening Friday? The Maya 2012 exhibit, that's what!
- Roach races, edible bugs, a mad scientist + more! Join us at HMNS Sugar Land for Spooktacular 2012
- Sweet lobotomies: A sugar skull how-to for fellow craft addicts
- Don't miss Astronomy Day this Saturday, Oct. 20 at the George Observatory
- We can dig it: Celebrate National Fossil Day and learn what to do with what you find
- Taking only what we need: What The Borrowers can teach us about energy conservation
- Get snap happy: Bring your camera — any camera! — to our Pixel Party photo event
- Spirits & Skeletons approaches: Dress up without dumbing down with these scientifically inclined costume ideas
- Prison Flashlight Tour - Ghost Edition at HMNS Sugar Land Oct. 18
- What's the over you'll make it Down Under? Final chance to book a trip to Aussieland for a rare eclipse
- Catch Dr. Bob Bakker and David Temple in a new History Channel documentary this Thursday night
- Fan yo self: Power down and cool off with these energy-efficient methods
- Meet TORO and the Houston Texans cheerleaders at HMNS Sugar Land this weekend — for FREE!
- Butterflies will blow your mind: A new Giant Screen Theatre film gives viewers new respect for migrating Monarchs
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: October 2012
- This semi-annual sale's not about skivvies, it's all about Skippers (and Painted Ladies, Nymphalids + more): The Semi-Annual Plant Sale!
November 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Win a stay at the Viceroy Riviera Maya and experience Maya culture in person with the HMNS Go Out in Style Sweepstakes!
- Debunking doomsday? Curator of Anthropology Dirk Van Tuerenhout on the real history of the Maya
- Upgrade your gift this holiday season with HMNS' fall Lego Robotics course
- Give your family some space — outer space! — at Family Space Day this Saturday
- Glow on, get happy! Join HMNS this Friday for a fun-filled night of light at LaB 5555: GLOW
- Have a chemical Christmas with these chemistry-themed holiday crafts
- Let it insta-snow: Make faux snow grow this holiday season!
- Killer crocs and cute koalas: Going to extremes with Australian wildlife
- Decoding the world's first computer: Unravel the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism at this distinguished lecture
- Attention, shoppers: The HMNS Museum Store has a new address at museumstore.hmns.org
- Reporting from Down Under: It's a solar eclipse shark attack in Australia
- Spend the weekend with HMNS: Go Fish Friday and get colorful with chalk Saturday at Via Colori
- Help HMNS track monarch migration! Look for these tags on monarch butterflies in Houston and report back.
- License to kill: Sabers and saber-tooths
- Color me Carmine: Cochineal bugs in our food and drink
- The Sun burps and the Earth reaches for the Lysol: Learn why in our Nov. 15 lecture, Our Explosive Sun
- Big bites with the big guy: Grab breakfast with Dr. Bakker this Saturday
- Release your inner child — and maybe a fishie — at HMNS Sugar Land's third birthday this Thursday
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: November 2012
- HMNS Lecture Series: Marvels, Oddities and Natural Science in the Medici Court
- What the ancient Maya really anticipated: The 2012 Phenomenon and December 21
December 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- A year in the life: Personal photos of the mayhem and magic that is working at HMNS
- Working from zero: How exchange programs and scientific sleuthing fuel our Department of Vertebrate Zoology
- Educator How-To: Calculating your birthday in Maya Long Count
- HMNS is here to handle the holidays: Whether it's goodies to wrap or stuff to do, we've got gifts galore
- Make the magic happen: How a gift to the Museum is a gift to everyone
- It's Baktunalia! Astronomy VP Carolyn Sumners on why Dec. 21 is cause for celebration, not wild imagination
- Lions and zebra and black rhino, oh my! Join HMNS on an African safari next November
- Style Spotlight: Jessica Winzelberg makes rough-hewn gems of jewels you can only get at HMNS
- The Bakker Beat: The Texans loss in Monday Night Football delivers a big, wet kiss on our Permian cheekbone
- Celebrate the maybe-end of days at HMNS Dec. 21 with Grupo Ka-Che!
- Don't miss the Geminid Meteor Shower this Friday night! Here's how, where and when to view
- Are there butterflies in your stomach? Two new types join the Cockrell Butterfly center — one with clear wings
- The stars at night are big and bright, deep in . . . New Zealand?
- Start a new holiday tradition throwing ornaments! All about boomerangs, with recent expert Carolyn Sumners
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: December 2012
- O Tannenbaum! The HMNS halls are officially decked — see it in pictures!
January 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- A prehistoric predicament repeats itself in The Netherlands! See it for yourself in our Paleo Hall
- Fabergé: A Brilliant Vision opens Friday — take a gander at some highlights here and hightail it to HMNS!
- Peruse Sugar Land's new Paleo Hall — it's newly doubled in size and open now!
- Educator How-To: Make your own Fabergé — ahem, Faux-bergé — egg, complete with a tiny surprise!
- Scout out the George Observatory on February 2: Cub Scouts earn Astronomy Belt Loop and Pins in one day!
- Who run the (math and science) world? GIRLS! Join HMNS Feb. 16 for Girls Exploring Math and Science 2013
- An early Maya metropolis: El Mirador raises questions for archaeologists
- Rock star David Lee explains "dreamtime" rock art in a Distinguished Lecture Jan. 22
- The best bugs in the world: They're not just at the Butterfly Center
- A proactive approach to apocalyptic scenarios: Join us for a distinguished lecture Jan. 16 on finding near-earth objects — before they find us
- Everybody wants you: Why gas is so important and how you can drive down gas prices
- Be the Party Smarty: Fuse this time-tested childhood craft with HMNS birthday fun
- Ecoteen Myria Perez earns Girl Scouts' highest honor — and a congrats from the Mayor — for collaboration with HMNS
- Who needs a gym or a diet? We've got your New Year's resolutions right here
- Calling all Scouts with a curiosity for the slick and slithering: Register now for our spring Herpetology Workshop!
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: January 2013
February 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Buzz or flutter: Who matters when it comes to pollination? (Hint: It's everybody.)
- March 4th and conquer: Camp, that is! Family level member registration for Xplorations Summer Camps opens Monday
- A Museum staffer gets our mouths watering with science-inspired sweet stuff: Meet Jillian & Co.!
- Educator How-To: Prep for Pi Day with a circle-folding exercise
- A(nother) world away? The X-Planets, now at the Burke Baker Planetarium, takes viewers to alien earths
- Rub elbows with the Royal Family at a distinguished lecture from Royal Curator Caroline De Guitaut
- See some real stars this Spring Break at the George Observatory — now with extended hours!
- Go green in March with a Party Smarty birthday party special that'll make you want to celebrate
- Dumb as a rock? A lumpy bit of earth reveals a geological timeline in Seymour
- Tree frogs! Serpents! Monkey-eating birds! Peel back the layers of the rainforest with our new Wildlife on Wheels
- A big rock for Valentine's Day? Watch our VP of Astronomy Carolyn Sumners discuss the massive asteroid zooming past Earth on Feb. 15
- Travel to Japan without leaving home at family-friendly World Trekkers on Feb. 15
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: February 2013
- It's a Pixel Party: Get snap happy with us at Faberge: A Brilliant Vision on Sunday evening!
- The Tontons' Asli Omar talks museum memories and first-ever HMNS performance — this Friday, Feb. 8!
- Intergalactic planet hoppers land at HMNS Sugar Land with Zula Patrol: Mission Weather
- LaB 5555 this Friday: Steep yourself in culture, say oolong to the stress of the week and TEA off with The Tontons
- Learn about Earth-like worlds outside the Solar System with The X-Planets: Discovering Other Earths in our Planetarium
March 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Reflect, refract, get the facts! Join us for a telescope class April 6 at the George Observatory
- Field Notes: Egyptologist Peter Lacovara takes us back to Abydos
- Visit our butterfly beauties at Primavera through April 7 at the Houston Galleria!
- How mammals became mommies: Learn about the evolution of mothering over 200 million years in this Distinguished Lecture
- How the Medici family influenced Peter Carl Fabergé: Our exquisitely entwined exhibits
- Educator How-To: Why square it when you could cubit?
- Vroom vroom: Revvin' up for LaB 5555 with headliners The Octanes, Texas rockabilly heroes
- Are you ready for this? Public registration for Xplorations Summer Camp begins Monday!
- Ace your after-school activities: Build a robot from scratch with our LEGO Robotics class
- An interview with Caroline de Guitaut, Royal Curator, pretty talker and bona fide Fabergé expert
- Museum mysteries: What happens to the combs in the coin funnel? Yes, the combs.
- Bakker blogs: Murder by hickey — or a dinner date with a meat head
- Find out if you're a Fabergénius here: This time with answers
- Are you a Fabergénius? Take this quiz and find out!
- Expand your mind and your belly at Pi Day this Thursday!
- Comet Pan-STARRS is here! Catch a glimpse tonight at twilight — it's kind of a big deal
- Have a fun, fossil-filled Spring Break at HMNS! Did we mention we have air conditioning?
- Wildlife on Wheels turns muse for these talented artists from Johnston Middle School
- Make the most of your Spring Break by earning badges at Eagle Week! Be a triple threat March 11 through 13
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: March 2013
- The X-Planets: Exploring the consequences of another Earth
April 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Emails from the other side: our Museum Mummy reaches out
- Educator How-To: Deciphering Papyrus with the Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Field Notes: Dr. Peter Lacovara on the Mystery of the Osirion
- Dinosaurs in three dimensions: See Jurassic Park 3D on Houston's biggest screen — complete with a Jurassic Paleo Hall tour
- Zip on over to HMNS Sugar Land on Friday for a members-only viewing of Zula Patrol: Mission Weather
- Get your wings with Your Community and Heritage, a new Eagle-required badge available this summer!
- Walk like an Egyptian this weekend at HMNS Sugar Land!
- Not your average flower: Learn how to care for orchids at the Houston Orchid Society's Annual Show & Sale this weekend
- X-treme astronomy: Go behind-the-scenes of The X-Planets on April 18
- Field Notes: Why the pyramids of Abydos are the most fascinating in Egypt
- Flower power: Explore the fragrant orchid at the Orchid Show & Sale on April 20-21
- Iguana invasion: Ship stowaway leads to international plea deal for Colombian infiltrator
- Win two FREE tickets to the Cockrell Butterfly Center! Read on for details
- Making the common uncommonly beautiful: Fabergé takes on the bell-push
- Get blown away by Weather Land at HMNS Sugar Land's next Friday Family Fun Night this April 5
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: April 2013
- Get your garden going with our Semi-Annual Plant Sale this Saturday!
May 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Be trashy: How waste-to-energy could help fuel America
- Party with the planets this Memorial Day: See the closest gathering of any three planets until 2021
- Emails from the other side: When it comes to ushabtis, is it possible to miss something you never had?
- What do HMNS, Superman, Stargate and steampunk have in common? Find out on May 25 at Comicpalooza
- Get started early: HMNS child development class Early Investigations doubles capacity for summer
- Emails from the other side: The Museum Mummy flatters a staffer
- Today in the Department of Mysteries: 12-year-old Robby uncovers "culturally modified" bone in Jersey Village
- Kid Curators lit up the mic at Wednesday night's Intellectual Insights Q&A
- Miss the belly-dancing and dervish-whirling at World Trekkers: Egypt? Join us Aug. 9 for World Trekkers: France!
- Unravel the coldest case on record: Talk Otzi the Iceman in a Distinguished Lecture on May 14
- Emails from the other side: Our correspondence with a corpse continues
- Field Notes: The vividness of Ramesses II at Abydos
- Seeing Stars with James Wooten: May 2013