Science Bulletins: Yellowstone—Monitoring the Fire Below
Three of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in geologic history occurred at a place now visited by nearly four million people ...
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Science Bulletins: Sloan Digital Sky Survey—Mapping the Universe
Taking a census of all the luminous objects in one-quarter of the visible cosmos is a hefty accounting job. It takes a specially-built ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Space Weather—Storms from the Sun
Once upon a time, back in the twentieth century, the weather was straightforward: it rained or snowed, skies were sunny or cloudy.
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Setting the stage for the blue whale skeleton move | Natural History Museum
Watch the scaffolding rising around our blue whale skeleton as the Museum gears up for a move of gigantic proportions. From the ...
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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: Bat Succeeds at Part-Time Pollination
Many plants and their pollinators co-evolved specialized adaptations that aid pollination. But researchers recently found that a ...
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Science Bulletins: MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
The MESSENGER orbiter's January 2008 flyby of the planet Mercury was historic. The last time a spacecraft visited was 1975, and ...
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Science Bulletins: Learning from Lyme
Since its discovery in 1975, Lyme disease has become one of the most commonly reported diseases transmitted by insects, ...
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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Exploring a Star’s Death in 3D
Cassiopeia A is the gas cloud left behind after a star exploded, first glimpsed on Earth about 325 years ago. Its youth and ...
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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 ...
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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: Egg Patterns Identify Intruders
When cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests, they produce eggs similar in color and pattern to the hosts' own. With the help of a ...
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Science Bulletins: The Rise of Fire
Wildfires, whether ignited by lightning or people, show global patterns that are visible to satellites. In the United States, fire is ...
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Science Bulletins: Derecho
On July 4, 1999, a rare and terrifying storm swept through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota.
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Science Bulletins: Moving Mountains
One paradox of geology is that weathering a mountain down can actually make it rise higher. Scientists have learned of this ...
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Science Bulletins: China's "Great Green Wall"—A Dust Antidote?
For decades, China has been planting trees along the rim of the Gobi Desert. This "Great Green Wall" is the largest forestation ...
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Science Bulletins: Geologists on Mars
In March 2004, two NASA explorers discovered firm evidence that water once flowed on Mars—perhaps enough water to harbor ...
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Science Bulletins: Microbial Warriors Battle Digestive Disease
Interactions between many species of bacteria create a healthy environment in the human stomach and intestines. But when ...
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Spiders at Natural History Museum
Spiders at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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Science Bulletins: Miniature Human Brains Grow in a Lab
Cultivated from stem cells, lab-grown "mini-brains" structurally resemble human brains, with distinct layers and regions.
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Science Bulletins: Wild at Heart—The Plight of Elephants in Thailand
Elephants in Thailand have a big unemployment problem. Long a revered creature in traditional Asian cultures and a critical beast ...
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Science Bulletins: Influenza—Jumping the Species Barrier
Outbreaks of avian influenza are killing both domestic poultry and wild birds across Asia and Europe. While the virus is lethal to ...
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Science Bulletins: Bee Deaths Linked to Common Pesticides
Several recent studies have questioned whether exposure to common pesticides might be impairing bee performance and ...
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Science Bulletins: Bilingual Brain 'Switch' Found
A recent study led by University College London neuroscientist Cathy Price reveals how the human brain is uniquely adapted to ...
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The Rhino at Göteborg Natural History Museum
Rhino horn are incredible expensive in the Far East for dubious reasons. The Rhino in the museum was affected by this.
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Science Bulletins: Brains Process Sounds into Sight
When someone is blind from birth, what happens in their brain's visual cortex? Scientists have long thought that this portion of the ...
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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: Autistic Brains Show Visual Dominance
After examining brain-mapping studies of hundreds of autistic people, scientists from the University of Montreal in Canada and ...
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Walking with Arachnids in the Natural History Museum's Spider Pavilion
Every spring the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opens up their pavilion, letting you walk through a spectacular ...
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Science Bulletins: Diet Changes In Our Past Helped Harmful Microbes To Thrive
When humans became more dependent on carbohydrates, the diversity in our oral microbiome suffered. Farming brought ...
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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: WISE to Scan the Infrared Sky
NASA's latest space telescope-the Wide Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE-recently took its first images of the sky around Earth in ...
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Science Bulletins: Greening of the Arctic
In the Arctic, where air temperatures are rising at about twice the global rate, scientists are seeing major shifts in plant life.
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Science Bulletins: Arctic Sea Ice—The New Normal
As climate change progresses, the seasonal ice covering the Arctic Ocean is becoming not only less extensive but also much ...
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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: NAO—Driving Climate Across the Atlantic
For centuries, a massive atmospheric system has regularly altered weather patterns, fishery production and animal migrations ...
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Science Bulletins: Focus on Mars
This month's Astro News features a roundup of Mars stories: • A high-resolution map of Mars's surface shows geologic structures ...
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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 ...
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