Drexel researchers are beginning to use 3-D printing to create smaller-scale replicas of the shape of dinosaur fossils. They will eventually build robotic models of giant dinosaurs, attaching artificial muscles and tendons to perform comprehensive tests of how their bodies could have handled physical stresses of the environment.
Meet Sadie - an African pygmy hedgehog and a star at the Live Animal Center at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
Sadie’s story is just one of 200 being posted each day, as the Academy counts down to its bicentennial this spring. Learn more at http://www.ansp.org/200/.
Photography: Cora Rivera
One Great Idea: Drexel President John Fry and Academy of Natural Sciences CEO George Gephart discuss the inspiration behind the new affiliation between Drexel and the Academy. The partnership will enhance environmental science research and education in Philadelphia.
(Source: philly.com)
Philadelphia Inquirer video about the five-story biowall in Drexel’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, officially opening in September. See the related Inquirer article.
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Drexel University’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building is nearing completion. View more photos from inside at our latest Flickr photoset.
From August 6 through December 4, 2011, an exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (now affiliated with Drexel University) will feature the science illustrations of Dan Otte. Otte, the Academy’s senior curator of entomology, uses colored pencil, graphite, ink, and watercolors to capture in exquisite detail the intricacies of grasshoppers, beetles, crickets and weevils. He also is a pioneer in recording and interpreting sound-producing insects. The Academy owns one of the largest collections of insect songs, and visitors will hear some of these in the exhibit.
The exhibit is free with admission. Visit ansp.org for hours and admission details.
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