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: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Jellies Down Deep
This Bio Bulletin, which features spectacular underwater footage, follows scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute as they retrieve jellies from ...
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Science Bulletins: Zircons—Time Capsules from the Early Earth
Zircons are tiny crystals with a big story to tell. Some of these minerals are the oldest Earth materials ever discovered, and therefore yield clues about what the ...
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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.
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Science Bulletins: Seeking Spiders—Biodiversity on a Different Scale
Recognizing the tiny species of any ecosystem is hugely important for defining its overall diversity. But miniscule forms of life are often invisible to conservation ...
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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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Tibetans Show Recent Evolution
To understand how the native people of the Tibetan plateau have adapted to their extreme low-oxygen environment, several research teams are comparing the ...
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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: 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: 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 Extra Genes Shape Our Family Tree?
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives to humans, sharing a surprising 98.8 percent of our DNA. How can we be so similar—and yet so different?
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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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The Attenborough - Fortey talk What's in a name? | Natural History Museum
Join Sir David Attenborough and Richard Fortey.
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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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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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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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Pollinator Press Conference - Bumble Bee - Lawn to Wildflowers
A bumble bee called a press conference and we got to ask lots of questions, we learned a lot. Here are references for all the facts presented in the video: ...
Lawn to Wildflowers
Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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Science Bulletins: Little Brain Gland Has Big-Time Effect
The function of the brain's pineal gland has long been a puzzle to scientists. Recently, researchers at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Child ...
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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: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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Dinosaurs of Copper Ridge - Part 2/2
This video is part 2 in a 2 part series about reconstructing the dinosaurs that left their tracks at Copper Ridge, near Moab Utah. In this part I discuss ...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: "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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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 ...
The Living Past
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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