Science Bulletins: New Tools Search for Lyme Disease in Brain
Lyme disease is caused by a bite of a tick infected with the bacteria Borrelia bergdorferi. Although it is common in some parts of the United States, it can be ...
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Science Bulletins: Mapping Emotions in the Body
Feelings are often associated with physical reactions: terror can send chills down your spine, and love can leave you weak in the knees. A recent study has ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Decoding the DNA of Extinct Species
Caves were important refuges for humans and animals that coexisted during the late Pleistocene, the epoch of ice ages that ended 10000 years ago.
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Science Bulletins: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
Astronomers propose a new theory to explain Saturn's unusual rings.
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Science Bulletins: The Rise of Oxygen
Follow geologists as they hunt for, pickaxe, and test rock samples from the 2.5 billion year old Huronian Supergroup, a sedimentary formation in Ontario, Canada ...
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Science Bulletins: Underwater Microscope Zooms in on Tiny Marine Life
Most plankton are too small to be seen with the naked eye. But despite their size, they are vital in marine and freshwater ecosystems, serving as food for larger ...
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Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum celebrates fifth anniversary
The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore turns five in 2020 and will be holding a series of e-events from Sep 5 to ...
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Science Bulletins: Supernova of a Lifetime
A recent stellar explosion in a nearby galaxy gave astronomers a rare glimpse into the early stages of a supernova. Supernova PTF 11kly is only 21 million ...
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Duchess of Cambridge visits Natural History Museum | 5 News
Subscribe to 5 News: http://bit.ly/5NewsSub ▻ The Duchess of Cambridge was taken on a journey of discovery, handling a meteorite and peering at common ...
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¿Garra asesina? La verdadera función y hábitos de los raptores
En este nuevo video les traemos un tema sobre el uso de la garra de los "raptores", dinosaurios depredadores con una reputación temible, pero que pudieran ...
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Science Bulletins: Baby Black Hole Lives Close By
Astronomers say a black hole recently formed in a nearby galaxy.
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Science Bulletins: 3D Tech Brings Isolated Fossil to Light
In 1993, spelunkers came across an extraordinary find in the farthest chamber of a winding underground cave near the town of Altamura in southern Italy.
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Science Bulletins: Stem Cells Made from Eggs Alone
Stem cells are cells that can develop into virtually any type of body tissue. Evenutally, it may be possible to use stem cells to create healthy tissues to replace ...
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Science Bulletins: Have Humans Adapted to the Western Diet?
Italian scientists report that people in Western countries lack the diversity of stomach bacteria found in rural villagers in Africa. The implication is that our bodies ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Early Human Walked Upright
Since a few 6-million-year-old bones of the species Orrorin tugenesis were discovered in Kenya in 2000, scientists have not been certain that Orrorin could walk ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Ancient Immunity May Have Upped HIV Risk
Retroviruses insert their genetic material into an organism's DNA to replicate. Over time, the viral DNA can inactivate and remain as a "fossil" relic the DNA ...
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REAL: El REGISTRO FÓSIL demuestra la EVOLUCIÓN
En pleno siglo XXI todavía hay quienes eligen creer que la evolución es falsa a pesar de las múltiples evidencias que la apoyan. Hay quien dice que el registro ...
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Pakistan Museum of Natural History, established in 1976, is a public natural history museum situated in Islamabad, the federal capital of Pakistan ...
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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 ...
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Nature's Fury: Tsunami Science - Reducing the Risk
The scientific data left in the wake of the horrific December 26, 2004 tsunami is proving invaluable to better prepare for future events. Learn more at Nature's ...
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Science Bulletins: Massive Study Links Genes to Disease
A sweeping new study by 50 research groups that comprise the Wellcome Trust Case Control Constortium has identified genetic markers for seven common ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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TERRIFYING Dinosaur Find!? (Discovering Spinosaurus Part I)
This is the first Episode in a Series on Spinosaurid Dinosaurs--their biology, evolution, and scientific history. We begin our journey in England where in 1983 an ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Did Climate Change Guide Early Migrations?
An international team of scientists has completed analysis of sediment cores pulled from several African lakes, providing the first long, continuous record of ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Neanderthal Genome Sheds Light on Humanity
Neanderthals were our closest relatives. These stocky, heavy-browed humans lived from about 200000 to 30000 years ago in Eurasia and the Middle East.
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Science Bulletins: Genes and Geography—They Go Together
Scientists can now analyze a person's genes to pinpoint what country his or her ancestors hailed from. A team of U.S. researchers recently performed a massive ...
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Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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Science Bulletins: Hubble Tracks the Seasons of Pluto
NASA recently released images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002 and 2003. When compared to images from 1994, the new images show ...
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Science Bulletins: Curiosity Rover Heads for Mars
The biggest and most technically advanced rover to date is on its way to Mars. In the latest Astro Bulletin from the Museum's Science Bulletins program, follow ...
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Science Bulletins: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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Science Bulletins: Brain Control of the Grasping Hand
Many primates, notably humans, have fine motor skills that permit grasping and manipulation of small objects, essential adaptations for tool use. Curiously, the ...
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Science Bulletins: Fuller Gene Map May Help Disease Study
Scientists have released the largest survey yet of human genetic variation.
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Science Bulletins: "Body Clock" Found in Bone
Many body processes operate in rhythms, often called "biological clocks." A team of researchers led by Timothy Bromage at the New York University College of ...
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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 ...
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