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April 25, 2012
Noah Van Sciver explores the final frontier at StarFest 2012
Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia and MCA Denver. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.) Last week ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Space out at Yuri's Night at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Star Trek and Star Wars and all that descended from them inured us to the real hardships of space travel by making it look so easy. But what was it really like for Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet? The Soviet cosmonaut took off in his Vostok craft on ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Noah Van Sciver goes punk at MCA Denver
Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Solar for a Small Planet will shine at the Ricketson Auditorium tonight
The sun may not break through all the smoke in the air from the Jefferson County wildfires today, but "Solar for a Small Planet," a free program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tonight, will shine a light on how solar helps power low-income communities around the world.
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February 20, 2012
Noah Van Sciver at Artopia 2012, a comic's eye-view
Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.) On Saturday night, we sent him to Art ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Flying Monsters looms large at the IMAX 3-D Theater: A Q&A with DMNS curator Joe Sertich
Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related more ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
60 Minutes in Space: Museum of Nature and Science has an out-of-this-world new series
What do you get when you combine a super-massive black hole, an eight-year-old Mars Rover, uncharted planets...and a couple of geniuses? 60 Minutes in Space, which debuts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
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January 9, 2012
Noah Van Sciver Visits the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, a web comic
Editor's Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.
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November 3, 2011
Around the World in Sixty Minutes
Editor's Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.
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October 25, 2011
John Bonath on A Strange Beauty at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
"Medusa Bones," by John Bonath. Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Photographer John Bonath's spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Photos: "Strange Beauty" by John Bonath
A spider's tiny leg hairs ("thrichobotria"), and a boy quietly, confidently holding the jaws of a taxidermied crocodile with a solitary bubble floating above his head. These images and other appropriately titled "strangely beautiful" photos by John Bonath will be on display during the creepiest of m ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
T. rex, O.G.
A spider's tiny leg hairs ("thrichobotria"), and a boy quietly, confidently holding the jaws of a taxidermied crocodile with a solitary bubble floating above his head. These images and other appropriately titled "strangely beautiful" photos by John Bonath will be on display during the creepiest of m ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
The ten dumbest dinosaur movie taglines
T. Rex Encounter is opening at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow, the new exhibit, which features robotic, interactive dinosaurs has got us rather excited. You can expect a full preview tomorrow morning, but while we're sitting on our hands in anticipation, we've been thinking ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
We talk with the DMNS Curator of Health Sciences about Gattaca
Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS' Curator and Department Chair of Health Science ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
We talked with the DMNS' Curator of Zoology about Alien
The Sci-Fi Film Series kicked off last week and will be running science fiction films, classic and new, every Wednesday for the next four weeks. The series' goal is to offer viewers a chance to talk with and hear a short lecture by an actual scientist about the scientific origins (or pseudo-s ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
100 Colorado Creatives: Dr. David Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Denver Museum of Nature and Science.Colorado Creatives #96: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Dr. David Grinspoon is out of this world! Discover Life Out There this weekend at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Ka Chun Yu David Grinspoon is a local treasure, and we're lucky to have him: The astrobiology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he's not at all what you expect a scientist to be like. Instead, Grinspoon, who is also a musician and a funny guy, channels the downright psychede ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II touches down at Space Day tomorrow at the DMNS
When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM -- the astronaut NASA designates as a mission-control liaison to the astronauts in space -- of Apollo 11, ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Science Lounge combined the whimsy of childhood with the drinking of adulthood
Please touch the artifacts.As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I'd be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Tonight's adults-only Science Lounge brings tattoos and trippy visuals together over cocktails
Tonight's after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go bey ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Avast! Ye Buccaneer Ball filled the DMNS Friday night
The pirates were out in full force at Friday night's Buccaneer Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; attendees were playing the part enthusiastically, with about nineteen out of every twenty participants dressed in their best piratical finery. (Although some people seemed to confu ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Avast, Buccaneers!
The pirates were out in full force at Friday night's Buccaneer Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; attendees were playing the part enthusiastically, with about nineteen out of every twenty participants dressed in their best piratical finery. (Although some people seemed to confu ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Gettin' Crafty: Eye patches fer yer mateys!
My pirate patchFor all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you "Gettin' Crafty" where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
The Science Lounge brings adult fun to the museum after dark tomorrow
While the majority of programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are family-friendly, The Science Lounge is strictly 21-plus only -- meaning you get to drink beer while looking at old, dead stuff. But the monthly program aimed a mature audience is more than just an after-hours wander thr ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
Denver Museum of Nature and Science asks you to name its woolly mammoth
An ancient bison tusk discovered at the site.As you may have heard, there was a substantial Ice Age find in Snowmass this Fall. On October 14, a bulldozer driver stumbled on the bones of a female mammoth, and the ensuing excavation has yielded prehistoric skeletons preserved in unprecedented ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Mammoth Madness misses the mark at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
An ancient bison tusk discovered at the site.As you may have heard, there was a substantial Ice Age find in Snowmass this Fall. On October 14, a bulldozer driver stumbled on the bones of a female mammoth, and the ensuing excavation has yielded prehistoric skeletons preserved in unprecedented ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Free Movie Time: Legends of Flight 3D at IMAX
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
The Third Dimension
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Bugging Out
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
The Big Draw
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Body Movin’
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>
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May 26, 2009
What does Joe Biden like so much about the Denver Museum of Nature and Science?
Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Today's featured event: Natural Disasters in Film at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is a real screen
While a slow walk through the exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, currently on view at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through May 3, will answer many questions you might have about the unleashed power of volcanoes, twisters and earthquakes, chances are it will merely whet ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Taste tests: Chocolate and the Yucatan
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Lab at Belmar kicks off the latest round of Taste Test, a series that "investigates the foods that we eat through a combination of history, science, anthropology and culinary arts," according to the Lab's Sarah Skeen. First up: "Taste Test: Chocolate," William Poole, found ... More >>
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February 9, 2009
Nature unleashes on Nature Unleashed
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science got an ironic taste of its own medicine, sort of, Monday when a windstorm knocked out power to the institution, forcing it to close for the day. Why was it ironic? A new exhibit entitled Nature Unleashed is set to open at the museum on Friday, February 13. Alth ... More >>
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September 26, 2008
Paleontology rules Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science got an ironic taste of its own medicine, sort of, Monday when a windstorm knocked out power to the institution, forcing it to close for the day. Why was it ironic? A new exhibit entitled Nature Unleashed is set to open at the museum on Friday, February 13. Alth ... More >>
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October 4, 2007
Them Bones
Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.
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June 21, 2007
Ship of Dreams
The Titanic sets sail.
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June 7, 2007
Beam Me Up, Scotty
The Titanic sets sail.
News
October 12, 2006
Rocket Man
David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.
Culture
February 16, 2006
Mind and Matter
Art and physics at the Mizel Center, plus a salute to the late Barbara Sudler Hornby.
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May 5, 2005
Lewis and Clark Disembark
Denver gets a visit from a stunning retrospective on the journey of Lewis and Clark.
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March 24, 2005
Best Museum Exhibit (Since March 2004)
Quest for Immortality
Culture
October 7, 2004
To Die For
Exquisite Egyptian funerary art graces the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
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September 9, 2004
Pharaoh Weather
Travel through time with Treasures of Ancient Egypt
News
February 12, 2004
Fool's Gold
Newmont Mining, Machu Picchu and the Museum of Nature & Science make strange bedfellows.
News
October 16, 2003
Follow That Story
Back to Nature
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June 12, 2003
Space Is the Place
DMNS launches a new intergalactic exhibit
People & Places
March 27, 2003
Best Dinosaur Detective
Ken Carpenter
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Sports & Recreation
March 29, 2001
Best Water World for the Masses
Gates Family Foundation Interactive Fountain
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