Kate Wheeling

Nov 20, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Kate Wheeling

A worldwide search party is using 21st-century tools to uncover long-unseen species, one of which hadn’t been found since the 19th century More than 120 species of birds are considered to be lost—not recorded or captured in the wild for more than ten years. Now, the Search for Lost Birds, a global partnership of conservancy organizations, is offering everyday people a database and encouraging them to gather and share information about the lost birds they might see in the wild.

Aug 27, 2024 | psmag.com | Kate Wheeling

Ever since humans became a spacefaring species, settling down on other planets has seemed an inevitability—even a necessity. Scientific titans including Stephan Hawking and Carl Sagan believed humans were “obliged” to leave Earth, if only to ensure our survival as a species. The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, as the space-industry axiom goes, and look where it got them.

Apr 15, 2024 | eos.org | Humberto Basilio |Sofia Moutinho |Kate Wheeling

Posted inNews Más de 2,000 investigadores han firmado una carta abierta solicitando la repatriación del fósil de dinosaurio a Brasil. Algunos afirman que el caso pone de manifiesto un modelo de colonialismo científico en la paleontología.

Nov 29, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Kate Wheeling

The change in Zack Rogers was sudden. In the middle of his 12th birthday party, his stomach started hurting. He went to bed early that night, missing much of his own slumber party, and then stayed home from school the whole next week. The stomach pain was excruciating, and he couldn’t keep any food down. He lost 40 pounds in just a few weeks. Zack spent the next three years in and out of hospitals and trying medicines that didn’t seem to work.

Nov 28, 2023 | smithsonianmag.com | Kate Wheeling

The bold journalist, who made a splash on both sides of the lens, is the subject of a new biopic starring Kate Winslet Lee Miller’s big break began with a near-death experience. Miller was discovered at 19 by publishing scion Condé Nast himself when he pulled her out of the way of an oncoming car in Manhattan—then put her on the cover of Vogue. But Miller, born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, was not content to be a muse for male photographers.