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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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: 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: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Baby Black Hole Lives Close By
Astronomers say a black hole recently formed in a nearby galaxy.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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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 ...
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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: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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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: 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: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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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: 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 use an embryo as a vehicle.
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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: "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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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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Science Bulletins: Making Medicine from Nature
Three cutting-edge medical technologies inspired by biodiversity. This Bio Bulletin snapshot is third in a series to celebrate the 2010 International Year of ...
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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: Blocking Malaria from the Blood
To fuel new malaria drugs, scientists are studying how malaria parasites gain access to red blood cells. Australian researchers recently discovered a surface ...
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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: 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 dynamics of this early period. Scientists ...
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Science Bulletins: New Malaria Map
The international Malaria Atlas Project has created the most complete map of malaria risk in four decades. The team analyzed 4278 surveys of malaria infection ...
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Science Bulletins: Planck and Herschel: The Sky at Two Scales
Planck and Herschel, a pair of satellites launched in 2009, are examining the sky in tandem to solve some of our biggest cosmological mysteries.
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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: 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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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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Science Bulletins: New Gene Implicated in Deafness
It is thought that mutations in several hundred genes can cause hereditary hearing loss. By generating random mutations in mice, a team of researchers led by ...
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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: Ancient "Kitchen" Reveals Modern Hunting Skills
How early humans hunted and ate their food can be a gauge of cognitive ability. It takes more strategic planning to capture large, healthy, adult game, transport it ...
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Science Bulletins: Star Bolts from Crowded Nebula
No star-forming region in our local Universe is as vigorous as 30 Doradus, also called the Tarantula Nebula. Now astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space ...
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