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: 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: Baby Black Hole Lives Close By
Astronomers say a black hole recently formed in a nearby galaxy.
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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: Shrinking Glaciers—A Chronology of Climate Change
Analysis of Earth's geologic record can reveal how the climate has changed over time. Scientists in New Zealand are examining samples from the rocky ...
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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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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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: 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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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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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: 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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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: 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: 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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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: 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: Full Gene Set Decoded for Three More People
In June 2000, scientists triumphantly announced they had deciphered the full human genome—the 3.2 billion units of DNA that make up the blueprint for human ...
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Aux origines des chiens (canidés) - Évolution / Paléontologie - Simplex Paléo
Nous savons tous que les loups sont à l'origine des chiens, mais qui sont les ancêtres des loups ??? Direction le paléogène pour découvrir qui furent les ...
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Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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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: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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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: 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: 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: 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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Science Bulletins: Fuller Gene Map May Help Disease Study
Scientists have released the largest survey yet of human genetic variation.
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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: Ancient "Kitchen" Reveals Modern Hunting Skills
How early humans hunted and ate their food can be a gauge of cognitive ability. It takes more strategic planning to capture large, healthy, adult game, transport it ...
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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: 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.
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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 ...
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