Science Bulletins: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
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Science Bulletins: Ancient Graves Reveal Family Ties
In 2005, a team of archaeologists unearthed a well-preserved group of 4600-year-old graves in the agricultural region of Eulau, Germany. People were buried ...
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The Attenborough - Fortey talk What's in a name? | Natural History Museum
Join Sir David Attenborough and Richard Fortey.
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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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The Fatal Song of the Sirens
Don't miss future episodes of Monstrum, subscribe! http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub We tend to picture sirens as seductive water creatures similar to mermaids, but the ...
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Science Bulletins: Earth's Green Carbon Machine
The seasonal growth of plants—both on land and in the ocean—is one of the most striking patterns visible on Earth from space. This green "pulse" of life is ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Our Ancient Relatives Born with Flexible Skulls
A new study of the skull of an early hominin child provides a better understanding of the evolutionary timeline for modern human skulls-and brains. The skulls of ...
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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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Research Aspects: Part 1: Measurements of science and academic publishing.
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Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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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: 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: Acid Oceans
If youre an ocean creature with a hard shell—like a sea urchin, a hermit crab, or a coral polyp—you prefer ocean water with a pH of about 8.2. This chemistry ...
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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: 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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Science Bulletins: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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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: 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: Whales Give Dolphins a Lift
Many species interact in the wild, most often as predator and prey. But recent encounters between humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins reveal a playful ...
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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, ...
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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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Nature's Fury: Yellowstone - Monitoring the Fire Below
The magma chamber responsible for Yellowstone's past volcanic activity still lies beneath, and continues to steam, heat, and shift the park landscape.
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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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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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: New Gene Implicated in Deafness
It is thought that mutations in several hundred genes can cause hereditary hearing loss. By generating random mutations in mice, a team of researchers led by ...
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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: 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 ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Planck and Herschel: The Sky at Two Scales
Planck and Herschel, a pair of satellites launched in 2009, are examining the sky in tandem to solve some of our biggest cosmological mysteries.
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Science Bulletins: Decoding Human Ancestry
As technology improves, allowing the quick sequencing of large quantities of DNA, researchers are increasingly organizing massive studies to collect and ...
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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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Science Bulletins: Duplicate Genes Set Primates Apart
Duplicate genes are becoming a powerful tool to investigate what makes us human. Sometimes one chromosome will acquire more than one copy of a particular ...
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FAQ: Les spinosaures
Interview du Dr. Christophe Hendrickx, paléontologue spécialiste des dinosaures théropodes, qui nous parle des Spinosauridés. L'actualité scientifique sur ...
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Science Bulletins: SpaceX Dragon Succeeds in Historic Mission
SpaceX achieved a milestone in space travel last month, becoming the first private company in the United States to successfully launch a cargo capsule, attach it ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Mapping "Hobbit" History
The remains of a group of one-meter tall people who lived as recently as 12000 years ago were found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. Researchers ...
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Science Bulletins: Swine Flu: Seeking Genetic Clues
Scientists are quickly sequencing the genes of the swine flu virus, officially called influenza A H1N1, from thousands of patients around the world.
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