The other weekend saw the opening of Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit features twenty-one of Henry Moore's giant biomorphic sculptures placed at well considered locations across the garden grounds. more ›

What does a Stuyvesant High grad who won the Siemens Competition prize for outstanding high school science project do these days? Study worms of course. Yin Li won the $100,000 scholarship in 2003 for his study of how certain proteins in the brain "might control the capacity of nerve cells to undergo local protein synthesis". Such a mechanism might be related to memory and learning. more ›

Sometimes Gothamist is a bit of a science nerd. When the Einstein exhibit opened a few years back at the Museum of Natural History, we were there standing in line on opening weekend. Now the AMNH brings us a new subject: Charles Darwin. He was a man who hid from the public eye (even keeping many of his theories a secret for years), so we can't wait to study him and his work under a magnifying glass like he so often did with other species. We just hope they aren't selling Darwin slippers in the gift shop, as they did with Einstein at the end of that exhibit. more ›

We human beings are more like the animals than we'd readily admit. Just ask Charles Darwin, whose theory on evolution rocked the Nineteenth century; even a few nuts in the State of New York are still perturbed by the whole ape-linking concept. Recent studies show how animals behave in some fun ways that may not be that different from how people do. more ›