In the historic Down House, the house where Charles Darwin lived for 40 years in Kent, England, there was a space that was key to developing the theory of evolution that would bring the English naturalist worldwide fame. And it's not the table where he wrote The Origin of Speciesbut rather his garden. There, Darwin spent hours conducting small experiments with plants, such as the so-called Darwin's orchid or Christmas orchid, from Madagascar. It is a very particular species, with an extraordinarily long nectary, over 20 centimeters. The scientist predicted the existence of an insect capable of reaching the hidden nectar. The butterfly would be discovered decades later, confirming an intuition based solely on botanical observation.

The crocodile has disappeared from the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences. There are six groups of suspects, each with a motive for committing the theft. Who did it? Thus begins the live Cluedo, in which no one is who they say they are. Participants, divided into teams, will test their ingenuity through a series of tests, analyzing clues, and defending the accusations against them. The scene is the Martorell Exhibition Center, with the Ciutadella as a backdrop. "If you want a different audience, you have to offer different proposals," says Montse Ballester, a technician in the Museum's Education and Activities Department, when asked about the origin of this initiative. "We wanted to offer an activity focused on a younger audience, which is the most difficult thing to bring to museums."

In the Mediterranean Sea, the cradle of so many civilizations, the Punic was the first truly cosmopolitan civilization and the one that made the first attempt at globalization. This is reflected in a study published this Tuesday in the journal Nature, promoted by the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences, which analyzed the genomes of 210 individuals from 14 sites in Spain, North Africa, and the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia.