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A photo shows the American Museum of Natural History's adorable addition to its vaccination site - a bandage for its blue whale
The American Museum of Natural History's vaccination site opens April 23. The museum added a bandag…
Talia Lakritz
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A tiny ancient elephant that roamed Sicily 200,000 years ago had babies the size of pet dogs
The Sicilian dwarf elephant was a tiny, evolutionary marvel. An exhibit at the American Museum of N…
Maiya Focht
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How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too
By picking up low frequency sounds with their bodies, elephants can sense distant noises like storm…
Maiya Focht
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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
Einstein didn't join scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project. US officials w…
Sonam Sheth
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Baby T. rexes were covered in peach fuzz and the size of small turkeys - here's what they looked like
Once the fuzzy predators made it past infancy, they grew quickly into fierce predators. Juveniles a…
Aylin Woodward
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The real T. rex looked nothing like the monster in 'Jurassic Park.' These 13 discoveries have upended our picture of the 'king of the dinosaurs.'
The exhibit showcases the most up-to-date research on the prehistoric animal. And as it turns out, …
Aylin Woodward
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New, detailed pictures of planets, moons, and comets are neither photos nor animations - they're made using data from 50 years of NASA missions
"We're not making anything up here," Carter Emmart, director of astrovisualization for that show, s…
Aylin Woodward
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12 photos show how humans explored Earth's oceans from the 1600s to now
"We still know so little about the ocean," John Sparks, the curator in charge of the AMNH's departm…
Kevin Loria
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Secrets of what ancient mummies look like under their wrappings are finally being revealed
In the exhibit, on tour from the collections of Chicago's Field Museum, technology like computerize…
Kevin Loria
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Ariel Schwartz
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NYC's dinosaur museum is getting a major addition in 2020 - here's what it looks like
Even if you've never been, you've probably heard of it. The museum has existed in one form or anoth…
Ben Gilbert
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Fire Breaks Out In Dinosaur Exhibit At The Museum Of Natural History
OMG the @AMNH is on fire!! We were evacuated & it was crazy! #americanmuseumofnaturalhistory pi…
Christina Sterbenz
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Disease experts reveal their biggest worries about the next pandemic
"I would like to shout out to all the students out there who want to go into public health and who …
Kevin Loria
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These Goofy Looking Reptiles Ruled The Skies For Millions Of Years
In order to coax their big bodies into flight, these creatures evolved adaptations like hollow bone…
Leslie Baehr
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Paleontologists have discovered the world's biggest and longest-lived T. rex. It weighed almost 20,000 pounds.
The new study describes the discovery of this 13-meter-long (43-foot) dinosaur. Scientists first un…
Aylin Woodward
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A growing battle in the $47 billion organic food industry could fundamentally change the program - and some farmers are worried
"We are growing fresh fruits and vegetables that are as organic as any other method," he said. "Peo…
Leanna Garfield
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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just a simulation
One of the main arguments that physicists use to talk about what's known as the "simulation hypothe…
Kevin Loria
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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just a simulation
One of the main arguments that physicists use to talk about what's known as the "simulation hypothe…
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Spiders eat up to 800 million tons of prey each year, more than all humans weigh
Either way, if spiders weren't eating 400 to 800 million tons of insect every year, we'd be engulfe…
Kevin Loria
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Climate Change Will Turn The Arctic From White To Green
While the trees will also absorb carbon dioxide from the air, it's not enough to offset this darken…