Question Your World: Did Upright Walking Hominids Come from Africa?
One of the ingredients of humanity is bipedalism or the ability to walk upright on two appendages. For some time now, scientists have been exploring Africa looking for our most ancient ancestors to further the story of human evolution. However, a new discovery is questioning our slow bipedal evolution.
Question Your World: How Is Google Helping Puerto Rico’s Communication Needs?
Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico decimated in September 2017. While recovery efforts are underway, the island still faces many challenges to truly get things up and running. Google has offered to help bring the hurricane-battered island some help in their communication infrastructure using a pretty awesome approach.
Check Out Our New Weather Station!
The Museum just installed Richmond’s newest piece of equipment capable of making observations of the area’s weather – and it’s already broadcasting the data over the internet for us all to observe!
Question Your World: Why Have Recent Hurricanes Been So Strong?
This year’s hurricane season has been quite intense, to say the least! Hurricane season is not even over and we've already seen some big storms that have broken records, one after the other.
Question Your World: How Are Richmond’s Climate Resiliency Efforts Going?
Richmond mayor Levar Stoney recently announced that the river city will reduce its heat trapping gas emissions a whopping 80% by the year 2050! So, let’s look at ourselves and see how we’re doing.
