Science Bulletins: Human Heart Muscle Can Self-Repair
Swedish researchers have overturned a long-held belief that heart cells don't regenerate over a person's lifetime. The scientists traced levels of radioactive ...
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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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Meteorites | Live Talk with NHM Scientist
Could the water on Earth possibly have an extra-terrestrial source? NASA and JAXA have both undertaken ambitious missions to asteroids across the solar ...
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Science Bulletins: Field Notes from Madagascar
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History conduct studies all over the world during their annual field seasons. In this episode of "Field Notes," we trek ...
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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: 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: 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: Survivors of 1918 Flu Still Thwart Virus
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest ever recorded. At least 50 million people died before the strain mutated and vanished in 1919. Some of the ...
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Science Bulletins: Invasive Species
It's war in many ecosystems around the world as invasive and native species battle for primacy. Facing the increased exchange of ship ballast water among ...
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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: Monitoring Mount Etna—Magma on the Move
Scientists in Sicily are collecting an enormous amount of data to monitor moving magma inside Mt. Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Nearly a ...
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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: 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: Evolution in Action—Isolation and Speciation in the Lower Congo Region
Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish—many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the ...
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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: Scarlet Macaws Soar in Guatemalan Skies
Fledgling scarlet macaws took to the skies over Guatemala in record numbers this year, thanks to the efforts of researchers and conservationists. During ...
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Science Bulletins: Chimps Show Complex Body Language
Apes use complex combinations of gestures and facial and vocal signals to communicate. A new study by scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research ...
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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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Science Bulletins: New Lactose Tolerance Mutation Found
Geneticists working in East Africa have discovered a gene mutation that enables certain adults to digest milk. The finding is a striking example of how a cultural ...
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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: 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: Biodiversity Unveiled—New Animal Discoveries of 2013
From legless lizards to purring monkeys, scientists described thousands of unique animal species in 2013. Some species-rich regions like the Amazon basin ...
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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 species. But Madagascar has ...
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Science Bulletins: Bipolar Disorder and the Body Clock
Many body processes operate on 24-hour cycles called circadian rhythms. Triggered by the environmental cue of daylight, circadian rhythms are complex series ...
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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 for their future movements.
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Science Bulletins: Amazon People Offer Clues to Heart Health
A long-term study of the Tsimane, a traditional community that lives in the Bolivian Amazon, is offering scientists a new perspective on the risks of heart disease.
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Science Bulletins: Abuse Lingers in the Genes and Brain
By studying both rats and humans, a team of biologists from Montreal, Canada and Singapore has uncovered a link between abuse and neglect in early life and ...
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Science Bulletins: The Transit of Venus
For a handful of hours in June 2012, Venus's orbit carried it directly across the face of the Sun, providing a spectacular backlit view visible from Earth. Only six ...
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Science Bulletins: Chemical Defense Aids "Crazy Ant" Invasion
Invasive fire ants are firmly established in the southeastern United States, defending their territory with venomous stings. But a new invasive species, the tawny ...
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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: Elusive Y-Dwarfs Discovered
Brown dwarfs are cosmic objects that are intermediate between stars and planets. Scientists have spent more than a decade seeking confirmation of the coolest, ...
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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: New Fossil Show Ancient Disease
Tuberculosis has a long history in humans. While Egyptian mummies a few thousand years old show evidence of the disease, a new fossil find traces 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. Now, an experiment by a ...
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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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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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Science Bulletins: Twitter Tracks Cholera Spread in Haiti
In the early stages of an epidemic, access to information about emerging cases is critical for health care workers trying to control the spread of disease. A recent ...
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Science Bulletins: Earth's Nitrogen in the Balance
Use of nitrogen fertilizer is radically impacting Earth's nitrogen cycle.
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Science Bulletins: American Chestnuts: Back on the Home Turf
Majestic American chestnut trees were once a foundation species—abundant and influential—in the eastern woodlands of North America. But in the early 1900's ...
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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: 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: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
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