Where Did Our Honey Bees Go To?
How do honey bees, Apis mellifera, make decisions? Well, in a democratic congress of bees, each individual bee submits information and the whole colony makes a decision based on the…
The Common Zebra
The Common Zebra at the Springfield Science Museum was purchased by the Museums from the Jonas Brothers Studio in Mount Vernon New York in 1981 as part of a taxidermied…
1960s Scrap Book Helps Tell Space Story
I was in half-day kindergarten at Memorial School (now Mary A. Dryden Veterans Memorial School) in Springfield when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Prior to his death,…