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 ...
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
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
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.
American Museum of Natural History
The Attenborough - Fortey talk What's in a name? | Natural History Museum
Join Sir David Attenborough and Richard Fortey.
Natural History Museum
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 team that sequenced large ...
American Museum of Natural History
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, ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Super- Star of the Universe
A local star is the most massive ever detected.
American Museum of Natural History
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, ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: How Old is "Old"?
The human population in the U.S. and Canada is getting older—meaning that the proportion of elderly people is growing year by year. By 2050, researchers ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Ancient Immunity May Have Upped HIV Risk
Retroviruses insert their genetic material into an organism's DNA to replicate. Over time, the viral DNA can inactivate and remain as a "fossil" relic the DNA ...
American Museum of Natural History
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
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: 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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Stem Cells Made from Eggs Alone
Stem cells are cells that can develop into virtually any type of body tissue. Evenutally, it may be possible to use stem cells to create healthy tissues to replace ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: How Does Reading Change the Brain?
A recent study led by neuroscientists at France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research has found that learning to read—no matter at what ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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: 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: 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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Our Ancient Relatives Born with Flexible Skulls
A new study of the skull of an early hominin child provides a better understanding of the evolutionary timeline for modern human skulls-and brains. The skulls of ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Did Climate Change Guide Early Migrations?
An international team of scientists has completed analysis of sediment cores pulled from several African lakes, providing the first long, continuous record of ...
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: 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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: In Search of Wild Variety
To help build the catalog of life, biologists at AMNH search the globe for species that have never been scientifically described. Discover seven of these new ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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Was the T-Rex Feathered?
We all know that the magnificent 68-million-year-old T-Rex was one of the most ruthless predators on the Cretaceous block. What you may not know is that this ...
Animalogic
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
TERRIFYING Dinosaur Find!? (Discovering Spinosaurus Part I)
This is the first Episode in a Series on Spinosaurid Dinosaurs--their biology, evolution, and scientific history. We begin our journey in England where in 1983 an ...
The Living Past
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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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 launch a cargo capsule, attach it ...
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bulletins: An Odd Ellipse
A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a galaxy with a complex identity.
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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 ...
American Museum of Natural History
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.
American Museum of Natural History
Fossil finds from the ancient Saharan Seaway
A new paper published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History integrates 20 years of research by a diverse scientific team and describes the ...
Stony Brook University
Horse Evolution [from rabbits to newbie nightmares]
As mentioned multiple times this isn't an area of interest to me therefore I only cover a SLIVER of the evolution of the horse, however, as I go over the basics you ...
Halfrican Empire
