Science Bulletins: Rare Disorder Sheds Light on Sociability
Ongoing studies of people with a rare congenital disorder called Williams Syndrome are revealing the genetic basis and brain ...
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Science Bulletins: Scientists Save Penguin Chicks
African penguins are critically endangered, their colonies reduced by 70 percent in the last decade. Commercial fishing is to ...
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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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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 ...
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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: Deep-Sea Cephalopods Hide Using Light
Many kinds of octopus, cuttlefish, and squid are masters of disguise. They conceal themselves using ...
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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: Tibetans Show Recent Evolution
To understand how the native people of the Tibetan plateau have adapted to their extreme low-oxygen environment, several ...
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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: 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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Science Bulletins: The Cosmic Microwave Background—A New View from the South Pole
The icy South Pole desert is a harsh and desolate landscape in which few life-forms can flourish. But the extreme cold and ...
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Science Bulletins: Cassini-Huygens Explores Saturn
After a seven-year trip, the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in July 2004. Since then, Cassini has been capturing ...
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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: 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, ...
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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: More Roads Encourage Wildlife Poaching
A sweeping satellite analysis by researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center shows that roads have expanded more than ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Exposing Invisible Planets
Signs of a shock wave in front of an extrasolar planet may be the result of a magnetic field. Earth's magnetic field protects the ...
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Science Bulletins: Climate Change affects Ecosystems
This year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is issuing a series of reports about the state of global warming.
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Science Bulletins: Cancers Threaten Wildlife
As biologists more closely monitor the health of wildlife around the world, they're discovering that many wild animals are afflicted ...
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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: 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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Signs of Speech Ability Seen in Neanderthals
Could Neanderthals speak? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany—the same ...
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Science Bulletins: Tracing the First Americans
When and where did humans first enter the Americas—and what routes did they travel to colonize the continents? These are big ...
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Science Bulletins: Mapping Microbes in the Human Body
The Human Microbiome Project, an initiative of the National Institutes of Health, is cataloguing trillions of microbes that live within ...
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Science Bulletins: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
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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: 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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Fish Biodiversity Protects Coral Reefs
Not all seaweed-eating fish are created equal. Reef fish near the islands of Fiji eat seaweed that is toxic to coral, helping maintain ...
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Science Bulletins: Early Migration for Modern Humans
When did modern humans make their first appearance in Europe? A jawbone excavated in England and two molars found in ...
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Science Bulletins: Biologists Push to Save Sturgeon
Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea are being fished nearly to extinction for the luxury of their eggs: caviar. This Bio Bulletin features ...
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Science Bulletins: Brown Widow Spiders Invade Southern California
In the last decade, brown widow spiders have made a home for themselves in parts of Southern California, a region once ...
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Science Bulletins: Cocaine's Tug-of-War in the Brain
Scientists from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine are probing neurons in the brain's reward center to learn why cocaine can be ...
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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: The Hunt for Planet X
A large, unseen planet may be lurking in the cold, dim reaches of our solar system. Using a combination of theory and observation ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Inside the Teenage Brain
More and more, neuroscientists are finding evidence that the brains of adolescents are wired differently than adults'. Functional ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: On the Hunt for a Balanced Diet
Biologists had long assumed that predators were more concerned with the quantity of their food than the quality, but a recent study ...
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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 ...
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