Explorer Lecture: Dr. Donald Johanson, "Cleveland, Lucy, and the Human Story"
Skip the Intro: 11:20 The Cleveland Museum of Natural History was proud to welcome back Dr. Donald Johanson, for our latest Explorer Lecture. Dr. Johanson is ...
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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, spiders or other arthropods.
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Science Bulletins: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
Astronomers propose a new theory to explain Saturn's unusual rings.
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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: Supernovas Step by Step
Scientists are reproducing supernova explosions on computer screens.
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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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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: Have Humans Adapted to the Western Diet?
Italian scientists report that people in Western countries lack the diversity of stomach bacteria found in rural villagers in Africa. The implication is that our bodies ...
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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: 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: 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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Nature's Fury: Yellowstone - Monitoring the Fire Below
The magma chamber responsible for Yellowstone's past volcanic activity still lies beneath, and continues to steam, heat, and shift the park landscape.
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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: 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: Fuller Gene Map May Help Disease Study
Scientists have released the largest survey yet of human genetic variation.
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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 ...
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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: "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: 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: 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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Decoding Human Ancestry
As technology improves, allowing the quick sequencing of large quantities of DNA, researchers are increasingly organizing massive studies to collect and ...
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Science Bulletins:Tuberculosis's Hidden Strategy
Tuberculosis can linger for years, but usually carries no symptoms. Scientists from the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in India ...
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Science Bulletins: Little Brain Gland Has Big-Time Effect
The function of the brain's pineal gland has long been a puzzle to scientists. Recently, researchers at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Child ...
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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: 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: 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: Mapping "Hobbit" History
The remains of a group of one-meter tall people who lived as recently as 12000 years ago were found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. Researchers ...
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Science Bulletins: New Frog on the Block
A new species of frog recently announced itself to scientists studying amphibians in the area surrounding New York City. The marshes and wetlands of the ...
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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: 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: Swine Flu: Seeking Genetic Clues
Scientists are quickly sequencing the genes of the swine flu virus, officially called influenza A H1N1, from thousands of patients around the world.
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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 by AMNH research scientist ...
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Science Bulletins: Duplicate Genes Set Primates Apart
Duplicate genes are becoming a powerful tool to investigate what makes us human. Sometimes one chromosome will acquire more than one copy of a particular ...
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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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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 ...
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Science Bulletins: Cosmic Collisions Fuel Black Holes
Swift is a NASA satellite designed to spot gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the Universe. They are named for the extremely energetic gamma ...
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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 visible from Earth. Only six ...
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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: 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: New VISTA Telescope Exposes Orion Nebula
The new VISTA telescope is taking a fresh survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky by examining infrared radiation. Some of the first images released from the ...
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Science Bulletins: New Stem Cell Method Shows Promise
The University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who turned ordinary skin cells into stem cells in 2007 have cleared a major safety concern of using those cells ...
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