A Charlestown Municipal Court judge today ordered Yandri Hernandez, 24, held without bail as a potential danger to society as he awaits trial, following his arrest last week on charges he jumped out of a women's restroom stall at the Museum of Science and attacked a 15-year-old teen - who managed to escape and run out. Read more.
From flier distributed to local police by State Police, updated after his capture.
A Somerville man who was already facing breaking and entering and stolen-property charges is behind bars on charges he attacked a 15-year-old in a women's room at the Museum of Science on Oct. 6, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Rendering of LLAP statue via Museum of Science.
The Museum of Science announced today - officially Leonard Nimoy Day in Boston - it's working with the family of the late actor on a 20-foot-tall, illuminated stainless-steel statue of the hand gesture he made famous in his role as Mr. Spock. Read more.
Matt Frank asks that you cover your face for the seniors among us:
Not wearing a mask yet? Do it for our T Rex friend, he has survived multiple extinctions and a major @museumofscience renovation but is high risk due to age and working outside with the public...
Greg Cook reports that with no more money coming in from visitors due to the Covid-19 shutdown, the museum has laid off 122 and furloughed another 250.
Somebody took the liberty of improving an ad on the Green Line for one of those inner-body-workings displays that show up in Boston from time to time.
Michael Bloomberg, who used to visit the Museum of Science regularly as a kid, is donating $50 million to bolster its educational efforts.
After leaving Medford, Bloomberg went onto found an eponymous financial-data and news concern before becoming the first of two Boston-area mayors of New York. Read more.
You might recall the study results that came out in June showing germs on the T were no worse for you than germs anywhere else.
A team at the Museum of Science is preparing a presentation for museum visitors on the study and they T has agreed to loan them an actual subway strap for use in the talk. Read more.
Nick Cosky took a walk tonight on the bridge that connects North Point Park in Cambridge with Paul Revere Park in Charlestown.
JB Parrett, meanwhile, also visited North Point Park this evening, and watched the sunset over the Museum of Science: Read more.
The Museum of Science has lots of birds in its collection, including this case of some of the birds you can find in New England, such as, of course, one of the birds first discovered by Don Featherstone in Fitchburg.
The Boston Fire Department reports State Police recovered the body of a man who jumped into the Charles behind the Museum of Science around 3:15 p.m. and then never came up.
"All hail Gozer!" JB Parrett exclaimed as he took this shot of the angry skies over the Museum of Science this evening.
They are, however, OK at the Museum of Science, the Boston Business Journal reports.
JB Parrett watched the sunset today from the Boston side of the Museum of Science.
State Police report arresting Ryan Parrott, 24, this morning, following a chase across O'Brien Highway that involved a helicopter and a police dog.
Museum security guards called the nearby State Police barracks shortly before 11 a.m. to report they were chasing a suspect, according to a State Police statement:
H Boston captured this tyrannosaur at the Museum of Science.
Copyright H Boston. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The Boston and Cambridge city councils will hold a rare joint meeting on Thursday, to discuss ways of making the Boston area more economically competitive (apparently, Cambridge councilors have gotten over their fear of Boston).
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