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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
When Carnivores Took to the Water
AMNH scientist Camille Grohé studies the evolutionary history of aquatic carnivores, including otters, seals and sea lions. How and when did their land-dwelling ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Learning from Lyme
Since its discovery in 1975, Lyme disease has become one of the most commonly reported diseases transmitted by insects, spiders or other arthropods.
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 knees. A recent study has ...
American Museum of Natural History
Goes to Town - Breakout!
Some of the more plucky exhibits in the Goes to Town trail have escaped their confines and are apparently plotting to return to the Museum of Natural History to ...
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Cephalopod video: Taonius pavo
Taonius pavo in the cockatoo position. JSL II dive 1685; 10 October 1988; Bahamas; depth = 853 m; temp = 8.8 oC; specimen collected (USNM 81712); DML ...
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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 dominated by the more venomous ...
American Museum of Natural History
Nature's Fury: The Risk Beneath Bangladesh
Follow geologists as they map a significant fault near the capital of Bangladesh and study how an earthquake on that fault could cause a river to shift ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Hubble Spots Star Factories
A survey of the oldest objects in the Universe has revealed a multitude of dwarf galaxies that are producing stars at a dizzying pace. Using the infrared vision of ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 a healthy reef system.
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Thinking in Symbols
Modern human culture underwent a "creative explosion" in Ice Age Europe 40000 to 10000 years ago. The evidence, which ranges from fantastic cave paintings ...
American Museum of Natural History
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. This Bio Bulletin highlights the ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 shows that nutritional value ...
American Museum of Natural History
Chris Packham on Climate Change and the Television Industry | BAFTA TV Lecture
Chris Packham delivers the BAFTA Television Lecture where he talks about the threats of climate change and what the Television industry must do to combat it.
BAFTA Guru
Science Bulletins: Deadly Larvae Lure Predators
Amphibians that try to feed on the larvae of the Epomis beetle will find that they've bitten off more than they can chew. Rather than avoiding its predators, the ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: The Risk Beneath Bangladesh
With a population exceeding 160 million in an area the size of Iowa, Bangladesh is Earth's most crowded nation. It also straddles several tectonic plate ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 change—and not just the impacts.
American Museum of Natural History
Massive Fire Destroys India's National Museum of Natural History
India's National Museum of Natural History has been gutted by an early morning fire in central Delhi. The fire broke out on the top floor of the FICCI building in ...
Mashable Deals
Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics—hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle—in Earth's ...
American Museum of Natural History
Kinsey's Wasps - Shelf Life #9
Sexologist Alfred Kinsey's first love was the tiny gall wasp. His incredible collection—7.5 million wasps and the plant galls from which they hatch—is now housed ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 in 1958, when a young ...
American Museum of Natural History
Fossil Shows Ostrich Relatives Lived in North America 50 Million Years Ago
Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating back 50 million years represent a species of a previously unknown relative of the modern-day ostrich, ...
The University of Texas at Austin
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 Moon. By using radio waves to ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Inside the Teenage Brain
More and more, neuroscientists are finding evidence that the brains of adolescents are wired differently than adults'. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Gamma-Ray Bursts—Flashes in the Sky
Gamma-ray bursts—flashes of intense radiation in space that are often just seconds long—were accidentally discovered in the 1960's by satellites built to ...
American Museum of Natural History
Nature's Fury: Tsunami Science - Reading the Geological Record
The scientific data left in the wake of the horrific December 26, 2004 tsunami is proving invaluable to better prepare for future events. #naturaldisasters ...
American Museum of Natural History
Evolution in a Vortex – Fish Diversity in the Lower Congo River
Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator of Fishes, American Museum of Natural History Some of the most spectacular cataracts, falls, and gorges on ...
Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Manhattan Project Electronic Field Trip
Join The National WWII Museum for a cross-country virtual expedition to discover the science, sites, and stories of the creation of the atomic bomb. Student ...
The National WWII Museum
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend Coach Core Awards | 5 News
Subscribe to 5 News: http://bit.ly/5NewsSub ▻The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend the Coach Core Awards at Loughborough University. The couple joined ...
5 News
Science Bulletins: Oil Spill Poses Risks to Gulf Ecosystems
When the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, 2010, it set off an oil spill that may exceed the extent and impact of the ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Light Pollution—Beyond the Glare
Scientists have long understood that artificial light can disrupt wildlife that takes cues from natural light. It's becoming increasingly clear that light reflected off ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
Storied
LCDV 12 - Les statuts des fossiles en muséographie
Bonjour à toutes et à tous ! On se retrouve aujourd'hui pour une vidéo à deux directions : paléontologique et muséographique. Il s'agit de voir un peu les ...
Valéoraptor
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
