Science Bulletins: Sunken Remains Illuminate Native American Lineage
In an underwater cave in the Yucatán, divers discovered a near-complete human skeleton dating to the first wave of migration to North America. DNA evidence ...
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Science Bulletins: Geologists on Mars
In March 2004, two NASA explorers discovered firm evidence that water once flowed on Mars—perhaps enough water to harbor life. Science Bulletins is a ...
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Science Bulletins: Introducing the Denisovans
New research led by scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology confirms that a 40000-year-old finger bone and tooth belong to a ...
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Science Bulletins: Bat Succeeds at Part-Time Pollination
Many plants and their pollinators co-evolved specialized adaptations that aid pollination. But researchers recently found that a species of desert bat that is not ...
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Science Bulletins: New Horizons Brings Pluto Into Focus
Tiny, faraway Pluto was first spied in 1930. This icy world is one of thousands of rocky bodies that make up the Kuiper Belt, a ring that circles our solar system ...
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Science Bulletins: Super Corals—Understanding the Science (3 of 3)
Marine biologists in Hawaii investigate so-called “super corals,” which thrive even as ocean temperatures rise. In Understanding the Science, watch scientists in ...
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Science Bulletins: Protecting Wildlife in a Changing Climate
As the global climate changes, wild animals are shifting where they live—even beyond the protected areas that are crucial to their survival. This visualization ...
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Science Bulletins: Archived in Ice—Rescuing the Climate Record
Follow scientist-adventurer Lonnie Thompson to the 5670-meter-high Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes. Thompson and his team from Ohio State ...
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Science Bulletins: Tracing the First Americans
When and where did humans first enter the Americas—and what routes did they travel to colonize the continents? These are big questions for scientists studying ...
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Science Bulletins: WISE to Scan the Infrared Sky
NASA's latest space telescope-the Wide Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE-recently took its first images of the sky around Earth in infrared light. In its initial ...
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Science Bulletins: Beyond Our Solar System—Searching for Extrasolar Planets
Astrophysicists are discovering new extrasolar planets—those outside our Solar System—almost daily. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (originally called SIRTF ...
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Science Bulletins: The Cosmic Microwave Background—A New View from the South Pole
The icy South Pole desert is a harsh and desolate landscape in which few life-forms can flourish. But the extreme cold and isolation are perfect for astronomical ...
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Science Bulletins: On the Hunt for a Balanced Diet
Biologists had long assumed that predators were more concerned with the quantity of their food than the quality, but a recent study shows that nutritional value ...
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Science Bulletins: Rare Skull Sparks Debate About Our Ancient Relatives
An Asian dig site has yielded fossils of some of our earliest ancestors found outside of Africa. When scientists unearthed five skulls dating to the same period, ...
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Science Bulletins: SOFIA—Stars and the Space Between
By sending an infrared telescope to altitudes of 12000 meters (40000 feet) and higher, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) conduct astronomical ...
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Science Bulletins: Lighting Up Chandra’s X-Ray Views
Chandra, the biggest X-ray space telescope to date, detects high-energy emissions from very hot regions of the universe. Since launching in 1999, Chandra has ...
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Science Bulletins: New Fossils Recast Tyrannosaur Evolution
Fossils of two never-before-seen species of tyrannosaur are overturning long-held ideas about the diversity and evolution of this family of dinosaurs. One is an ...
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Science Bulletins: Melting Ice, Rising Seas
The rising temperatures of global climate change are melting the world's ice. Most notable are the shrinking ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica, which ...
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Science Bulletins: Jupiter's Shrinking Storm
Jupiter is a planet of extremes—it's the biggest in our solar system, it spins the fastest, it hosts the most moons, and it has the most turbulent atmosphere. But one ...
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Science Bulletins: Down and Dirty Biodiversity
The soils in tundra, grasslands, tropical forests are very different, but they have one thing in common; they all host an astounding diversity of life. Inhabiting these ...
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Science Bulletins: Reading the Rocks—The Search for Oil in ANWR
In 1980 an act of Congress set aside nearly 20 million acres of Alaska's North Slope tundra to create the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Less than 100 ...
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Science Bulletins: MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
The MESSENGER orbiter's January 2008 flyby of the planet Mercury was historic. The last time a spacecraft visited was 1975, and it only mapped half the planet.
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Science Bulletins: Bilingual Brain 'Switch' Found
A recent study led by University College London neuroscientist Cathy Price reveals how the human brain is uniquely adapted to manage multiple languages.
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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: Habitat Corridors Benefit Isolated Plants
In many open habitats, more than one-third of seeds are wind-dispersed. For isolated patches of plants, the interaction of wind with the landscape can determine ...
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Science Bulletins: Lake Mead: Empty by 2021?
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have analyzed the current and predicted "water budget"—the amount of water going in and coming ...
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Science Bulletins: Storing CO2 to Protect the Climate
What are humans to do with the billions of tons of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere? Since 1996, an experiment in the North Sea has been ...
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Science Bulletins: Focus on Mars
This month's Astro News features a roundup of Mars stories: • A high-resolution map of Mars's surface shows geologic structures in more detail than ever before.
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Science Bulletins: Deep-Sea Cephalopods Hide Using Light
Many kinds of octopus, cuttlefish, and squid are masters of disguise. They conceal themselves using chromatophores—specialized skin cells that hold pigment ...
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Science Bulletins: Oil Spill Poses Risks to Gulf Ecosystems
When the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, 2010, it set off an oil spill that may exceed the extent and impact of the ...
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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: Water Underground
Texas endured its driest year ever in 2011, and southern Alabama and Georgia have continued to suffer serious drought in 2012. Climate change is predicted to ...
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Science Bulletins: The Invasion: A Case Study on the Hudson River
Synopsis The zebra mussel, a notorious invasive species, has been silently infesting the rocky bottom of the Hudson River since it arrived there in 1991.
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Science Bulletins: One of the Earliest Primates Is Identified
Scientists recently uncovered a near-complete fossil skeleton of an ancient primate in China. The 55-million-year-old find presents a unique combination of ...
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Science Bulletins: Supramap Tracks Diseases as They Evolve
As pathogens mutate they can become more dangerous, developing resistance to drugs or migrating to new host species. Tracking mutations helps scientists ...
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Science Bulletins: Impact! Tracking Near-Earth Asteroids
Collisions between space objects are a vital part of the evolution of our Solar System. Most of Earth's impact craters have been wiped away due to plate tectonics ...
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Science Bulletins: Hubble Spots Star Factories
A survey of the oldest objects in the Universe has revealed a multitude of dwarf galaxies that are producing stars at a dizzying pace. Using the infrared vision of ...
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Science Bulletins: Hubble Space Telescope—25 Years and Counting
Few of NASA's telescopes have captured the public imagination like Hubble, with its spectacular views of distant galaxies, supernovas, and nebulas. The first ...
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Science Bulletins: Ozone's Slow Recovery
Ozone gas (O3) in the upper atmosphere shields Earth from the Sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation. Since the early 1980's, scientists have been aware that ...
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Setting the stage for the blue whale skeleton move | Natural History Museum
Watch the scaffolding rising around our blue whale skeleton as the Museum gears up for a move of gigantic proportions. From the summer of 2017, the skeleton ...
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Borneo biodiversity count | Natural History Museum
Just what extraordinary creatures are living in the Borneo rainforests? Join a team of Natural History Museum scientists on location as they survey the incredible ...
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Science Bulletins: GRAIL Spacecraft Ready to Map the Moon
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has put a pair of nearly identical spacecraft in orbit around the Moon. By using radio waves to ...
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