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National Museum for Natural History officially opens today
The National Museum for Natural History officially opens today to the public! Here's a sneak peek.
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Science Bulletins: Making Fossils Hear
When did human beings first develop the ability to speak? This remains one of the most exciting and perplexing questions for researchers of human evolution ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Attachment Theory—Understanding the Essential Bond
In 1958, psychologist John Bowlby pioneered "attachment theory," the idea that the early bond between parent and child is critical to a child's emotional ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: The Roots of a Malaria Menace
Malaria kills more than a million people every year. Recently, an international team of biologists used genetic techniques to trace how the malaria parasite ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins:Tuberculosis's Hidden Strategy
Tuberculosis can linger for years, but usually carries no symptoms. Scientists from the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in India ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Immune "Army" Can Fight HIV
Some people who contract the HIV virus stay healthy for decades. Scientists working towards HIV vaccines seek out these rare patients, who are called elite ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Peking Man—Older Times, Colder Climes
In the 1930's, scientists discovered a rich collection of Homo erectus fossils near Zhoukoudian, China. The site of "Peking Man" is still yielding new surprises.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Amazon People Offer Clues to Heart Health
A long-term study of the Tsimane, a traditional community that lives in the Bolivian Amazon, is offering scientists a new perspective on the risks of heart disease.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Evolution in Action—Isolation and Speciation in the Lower Congo Region
Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish—many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the ...
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions Fro... Part 1/2
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and ...
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Science Bulletins: Unraveling the Origins of the Flores Fossils
Since the diminutive hominid fossils—the so-called "hobbits"—were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, scientists have debated where to ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Blocking Malaria from the Blood
To fuel new malaria drugs, scientists are studying how malaria parasites gain access to red blood cells. Australian researchers recently discovered a surface ...
American Museum of Natural History
This Brick Ark: Celebrating Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
Lecture by James Hanken Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), the product of larger-than-life figures of 19th-century science, is a world-renowned ...
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Fuller Gene Map May Help Disease Study
Scientists have released the largest survey yet of human genetic variation.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
Astronomers propose a new theory to explain Saturn's unusual rings.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Gene Patterns Point to Long Lives
To better understand the biology of healthy aging, the Boston University School of Medicine is studying a unique population of Americans—centenarians, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Inside the Teenage Brain
More and more, neuroscientists are finding evidence that the brains of adolescents are wired differently than adults'. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: New Brain Model of Earliest Primate
Researchers from the universities of Florida and Winnipeg have reconstructed the brain of Ignacius graybullianus, one of the earliest primates known, from a ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: In Hot Pursuit of Asteroids
Asteroids, the rocky remnants left over from the formation of planets in the Solar System, offer scientists a window into the dynamics of this early period. Scientists ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Skull X-Rays Reconstruct Extinct Carnivores’ Bite
Some carnivores eat only meat, while others are more omnivorous. To understand how and when these differences in carnivore feeding may have evolved, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Genes in the Urban Environment
Much of who we are biologically is determined by an interplay between our genes and the environment we live in. To learn how the transition of human ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Our Moon
The peaceful glow of the moonlight in our sky belies a violent history. Evidence suggests that the Moon formed when a Mars-sized object collided with the young ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Survivors of 1918 Flu Still Thwart Virus
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest ever recorded. At least 50 million people died before the strain mutated and vanished in 1919. Some of the ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Scientists Peer Inside "Superbug" Genome
For decades MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has been afflicting hospital patients and prison inmates with life-threatening and ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Making Faces for Survival
Ask any person, from any country‚ to make a fearful face and you'll get the same response-eyebrows raised, eyes wide open, flared nostrils. A disgusted face, on ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Language in the Brain
Why is it that humans can speak but chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, cannot? The human brain is uniquely wired to produce language. Untangling this ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Human Stems Cell Breakthrough
A long-sought milestone has been reached in stem cell research: transforming adult cells directly into stem cells without having to use an embryo as a vehicle.
American Museum of Natural History
When Carnivores Took to the Water
AMNH scientist Camille Grohé studies the evolutionary history of aquatic carnivores, including otters, seals and sea lions. How and when did their land-dwelling ...
American Museum of Natural History
Nature's Fury: Tsunami Science - Reading the Geological Record
The scientific data left in the wake of the horrific December 26, 2004 tsunami is proving invaluable to better prepare for future events. #naturaldisasters ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Skull fills Gap in Fossil Record
Some periods of human prehistory lack a substantial fossil record in key geographic locations, making it difficult to confirm genetic evidence of modern human ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Stem Cell Advance Study of Lou Gehrig's Disease
Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has no cure. It causes motor neurons in the central nervous system to shrink, resulting in severe ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: When Young Brains Become Social
A brain imaging study from MIT and Yale researchers reveals the neural regions underlying social cognition—the ability to recognize other people's thoughts ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: New Evidence of Water on Asteroids
For the first time, researchers have detected water on an asteroid. Two research teams independently determined that the 24 Themis asteroid, which orbits ...
American Museum of Natural History
Fossil finds from the ancient Saharan Seaway
A new paper published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History integrates 20 years of research by a diverse scientific team and describes the ...
Stony Brook University
Science Bulletins: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Baby Black Hole Lives Close By
Astronomers say a black hole recently formed in a nearby galaxy.
American Museum of Natural History
Nature's Fury: The Risk Beneath Bangladesh
Follow geologists as they map a significant fault near the capital of Bangladesh and study how an earthquake on that fault could cause a river to shift ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Egg Patterns Identify Intruders
When cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests, they produce eggs similar in color and pattern to the hosts' own. With the help of a new computer program, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: New Malaria Map
The international Malaria Atlas Project has created the most complete map of malaria risk in four decades. The team analyzed 4278 surveys of malaria infection ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Ardi Unveiled
Fifteen years after the first fragments of a nearly complete skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus were found in Ethiopia's fossil-rich Awash River Valley, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: In Search of Wild Variety
To help build the catalog of life, biologists at AMNH search the globe for species that have never been scientifically described. Discover seven of these new ...
American Museum of Natural History
