Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

But what most fans don't realize is that this great design has a creepy little secret: originally, these droids were designed to resemble the skeletons of the Neimoidians. That's a trivia factoid ...

TUESDAY’S WORD was samara, meaning the winged fruit of maple and elms. Example: The child flung a samara into the air, amused by how it spun down like a propeller. Many of you no doubt read in Tuesday ...

Before the “Mr. DNA” film pre-show, we had a huge exhibit of dinosaur skeletons with informational graphic panels ... It didn’t seem quite real enough, so I asked the prop team to coat it in clear ...

Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

The skeletons in the images had multiple features that did not match the anatomy of real mammoth specimens held in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and ...