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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Keeling's Curve – The Story of CO2
As the leading greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide is one of the atmosphere's most closely watched ingredients. The scrutiny began ...
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Science Bulletins: Super Corals—For the Future (1 of 3)
Marine biologists in Hawaii investigate so-called “super corals,” which thrive even as ocean temperatures rise. In For the Future, ...
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Science Bulletins: Lemurs of Madagascar—Surviving on an Island of Change
On the world's fourth largest island, and virtually nowhere else, lives an entire "infraorder" of primates: the three dozen or so lemur ...
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Science Bulletins: The Known Universe
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the ...
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Science Bulletins: Skull X-Rays Reconstruct Extinct Carnivores’ Bite
Some carnivores eat only meat, while others are more omnivorous. To understand how and when these differences in carnivore ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Language in the Brain
Why is it that humans can speak but chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, cannot? The human brain is uniquely wired to ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Brain Evolution—The Sweet Smell of Success
A good sense of smell may have contributed to the development of certain kinds of social functions in Homo sapiens, according to ...
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Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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Science Bulletins: Sharks—the Past (2 of 2)
Scientists use CT scanning technology to compare living and fossil sharks. Over their 450 million-year evolutionary history, sharks ...
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Science Bulletins: Cloning and Conservation
On January 8, 2001, a healthy baby gaur—a large ox-like animal whose populations are now threatened throughout much of their ...
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Science Bulletins: Sharks—the Present (1 of 2)
Marine biologists in South Carolina head out on the water to catch and tag sharks, and to collect genetic samples that will be ...
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Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics—hotspots, deep-diving ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Potato Biodiversity—Ensuring the Future
Farmers in the Andes use biodiversity as insurance. The potato, a plant native to the area that is now the world's fourth most ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: PETM - Unearthing Ancient Climate Change
Fifty-five million years ago, a sudden, enormous influx of carbon flooded the ocean and atmosphere for reasons that are still ...
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Science Bulletins: The Ecology of Climate Change
The boreal forest, which stretches across northern latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle, is a key region for studying climate ...
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Science Bulletins: Thinking in Symbols
Modern human culture underwent a "creative explosion" in Ice Age Europe 40000 to 10000 years ago. The evidence, which ...
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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 ...
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SOS at the Natural History Museum: Nature Live
Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) Director Helen Buckland spoke at London's Natural History Museum on 14th June 2013 ...
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Science Bulletins: Brown Dwarfs—Tail End of the Stars
Journey to the heights of Mauna Kea in Hawaii where astronomers search for brown dwarfs, cosmic bodies that are not quite stars ...
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Science Bulletins: Obesity's Genetic Markers
The rise in obesity in many modern societies is largely a result of environmental influences, yet genetic factors can make people ...
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Science Bulletins Data Visualization Webinar: Protecting Wildlife in a Changing Climate
As climate change alters habitats on Earth, some species are shifting their ranges. Protecting sensitive species means planning ...
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Science Bulletins: "Hobbit" Study Takes a Step Forward
A recent study of the foot of the tiny extinct "hobbit" shows that this unusual hominid couldn't run easily. The work, which was led ...
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Science Bulletins: Elusive Y-Dwarfs Discovered
Brown dwarfs are cosmic objects that are intermediate between stars and planets. Scientists have spent more than a decade ...
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Science Bulletins: Ancient Humans Get a Genetic 'Census'
A new analysis of the DNA of modern humans has revealed the population size of our ancestors living 1.2 million years ago: just ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Brains Change with Trauma
Scientists are becoming increasingly aware of how life experiences can change both the physical structure and the function of the ...
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Science Bulletins: More Species, Better Water?
Biodiversity benefits humankind in many ways: it can inspire medical innovation, boost human health, and even process waste.
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Science Bulletins: Ancient African Toolmakers Had an Edge
South Africa's Blombos Cave has yielded new evidence of early cultural advancement in our species.
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Science Bulletins: The Oil Spill's Other Victims
http://amnh.org/rc10 Beyond oil-coated pelicans, the Gulf spill imperils many lesser-known species such as marsh grasses, ...
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Science Bulletins: Earliest Human Artifacts in Eastern Europe
Scientists have dated a set of unique artifacts found in Kostenki, Russia to 45000 years old—the earliest trace of modern humans ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: New Horizons Mission to Pluto
After its discovery in 1930, Pluto was long regarded as our solar system's ninth planet. But residing in the icy realm of the outer ...
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Science Bulletins: Warm Forecast for Coral Reefs
Watch how satellites monitor the risks posed to coral reefs by ocean warming, and see where reefs might be more resilient to ...
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Science Bulletins: Urban Sprawl—Phoenix
Most people think of urban sprawl as the construction of roads and buildings at a rate that exceeds population growth. Phoenix ...
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