Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that Christopher Columbus studied this map and that it influenced his...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is marking its 150th anniversary with an exhibition that utilizes “treasures” from the museum’s collections to weave a story of innovation and scientific revelation spanning from the Peabody’s founding in 1866...
Romy Carpenter waded at low tide across the mudflat to the water’s edge. Up to her shins in the black muck, she scraped a thin layer of mud into a sieve.Carpenter, a rising junior from Belfast, Maine, was on the hunt for foraminifera — single-celled...