Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
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Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
UCL’s Laura Porro recently teamed up with children’s TV presenter Maddie Moate to explore dinosaur diets, reptile teeth, and even what brains can tell us about intelligence.
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'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.'
Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2
Join us in wishing Sir David Attenborough a Happy 100th Birthday! 🎉
An inspiration to us all and the world’s greatest science communicator, here he is in the Grant Museum in 2014 filming ‘Attenborough’s Fabulous Frogs’. 🐸
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Unbelievable work by @kiabugboy.bsky.social! Please go give it a watch!
Join British Museum staff as they embark on a new research project, using modern X-ray and CT scanning techniques to reveal what's inside Ancient Egyptian animal mummies.
"Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters – an area roughly the size of the United Kingdom – from fishing and all other destructive human activity."
Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history
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By speeding up the process of describing new species, scientists can help to protect the precious places they live.
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Laura Porro from UCL's Centre for Integrative Anatomy was filmed talking about anatomy and fluffy dinosaurs with CBeebies' Maddie Moate - and helping Maddie to dissect a pig's brain!
Wishing a Happy 200th Birthday to @zslofficial.bsky.social! Our orangutan taxidermy specimen lived at London zoo from 1913-1917 and was later donated to @ucl.ac.uk.
Today we welcomed students and ZSL staff for a special UCL + ZSL bicentenary drawing workshop celebrating our two institutions.
