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Could life have formed on Mars? | Natural History Museum
Museum geologists Dr Joe Michalski and Dr Robin Armstrong investigate Iceland's volcanic landscape, and ask whether life could have formed under similar conditions on Mars. Discover more at: http://bit.ly/NHM-YT-Life-on-Mars
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How the Neanderthals got their big noses | Natural History Museum
Human origins expert Prof Chris Stringer introduces research on a Museum fossil that helps explain why Neanderthal faces look different to our own. Find out more about the study and what it revealed:...
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Bumblebee brain 3D model | Natural History Museum
This 3D reconstruction of a bumblebee’s brain was prepared by Museum scientists and collaborators using the Museum’s CT facility. Their new technique means researchers can now investigate how miniature brain structures involved in...
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Animal mummy reveals its secrets | Natural History Museum
Join Museum scientists as they find out what's inside this 2,000-year-old mummified animal specimen. Science communicator David Urry finds out the story behind the specimen. See more specimens from behind the scenes on one of our Spirit...
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Martian mysteries in lceland's volcanoes | Natural History Museum
Learn how Museum researchers are working in Iceland to reveal secrets hidden on Mars. Dr Robin Armstrong and Dr Joe Michalski explore an area of pillow lava in the Askja region. Discover more about Mars in Otherworlds: Visions of our...
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Exploring Iceland's lava tubes | Natural History Museum
Join Dr Robin Armstrong and learn how Iceland's lava tubes are helping scientists to explore the surface of Mars. Discover more of our solar system's mysteries in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System:...
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Otherworlds: the storm and the satellite | Natural History Museum
Join #Otherworlds artist Michael Benson as he explores one of his favourite images from the exhibition: the moon Europa photographed above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Book now to visit Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, launching at...
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Michael Benson: the art of Otherworlds | Natural History Museum
Michael Benson, the artist and curator behind #Otherworlds, explores the 'alchemy' he uses to transform raw space agency data into stunning true-colour images of our solar system. Book tickets to Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System...
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Rare Treasures book - audio slideshow | Natural History Museum
Library Special Collections Manager Andrea Hart picks some highlights from the book Rare Treasures: From the Library of the Natural History Museum. The book is available to buy in the Natural History Museum online shop:...
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Making a Neanderthal flint stone tool | Natural History Museum
Watch a flint knapper make a Levallois core and flake, an innovative stone tool developed by the Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Find out about human tool-making capabilities and five key features that make us human:...
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Our Spectral Vision, Liz West's art installation for Colour and Vision | Natural History Museum
Follow British artist Liz West as she creates a stunning light installation for the Colour and Vision exhibition. From the scientific theory through to the final installation, see how Our Spectral Vision joined over 350 specimens telling...
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The power of red | Natural History Museum
How do you feel when you see the colour red? Angry, amorous, energized? Vision researcher Dr Greg Edgecombe and artist Liz West ponder the significance of the colour red for people, and possible reasons for this. In nature, scarlet hues...
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Michael Benson: reflections on Saturn | Natural History Museum
Otherworlds artist Michael Benson discusses his images of Saturn – 'one of the most extraordinary things ever seen in nature'. See more stunning images of our plantary neighbours in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, until 15 May:...
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Priceless Blaschka models on display | Natural History Museum
The delicate glass artworks of sea creatures crafted by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka were made between 1866 to 1889. Find out how Museum staff prepared them to go on display in the new Treasure gallery.
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Fishing for new life | Natural History Museum
Strange life forms have evolved in the peat swamps of Southeast Asia, harsh habitats once thought to be devoid of life. Eleanor Adamson, fish researcher at the Natural History Museum, introduces some recent expedition finds, including...
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Goodbye to the baiji, the Yangtze River dolphin | Natural History Museum
Join Zoological Society of London (ZSL) scientist Dr Sam Turvey in this video to uncover the tragic example of the baiji, the Yangtze River dolphin. This extraordinary species was the only member of an entire mammal family. In an effort...
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Sebastião Salgado: Genesis | Natural History Museum
The world premiere of Sebastião Salgado: Genesis unveils extraordinary images of landscapes, wildlife and remote communities by this world-renowned photographer.
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Tiger conservation breeding | Natural History Museum
The future of the tiger is hanging by a thread. Their populations and habitat have halved in the past 20 years and less than 5,000 wild tigers survive. Sarah Christie, Tiger Conservation Programme Manager at the Zoological Society of...
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3D scans reveal deep-sea anglerfish's huge final meal | Natural History Museum
A rare hairy anglerfish that entered the Museum's collections 13 years ago had perplexed researchers with its massive stomach. However, the specimen was so rare they didn't want to cut it open to identify its last meal. Now, using...
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Bill Bailey takes the Wallace discovery trail | Natural History Museum
Between 1 July and 24 November 2013, follow in Bill Bailey's footsteps and take the Wallace discovery trail at the Museum. Get up close to the most important specimens - some on public display for the first time - of the co-discoverer of...
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Bill Bailey on Alfred Russel Wallace | Natural History Museum
Comedian Bill Bailey shares his huge admiration for Alfred Russel Wallace who died 100 years ago in 1913. Not only did Wallace co-discover natural selection, the driving force for evolution, he also founded a new field of biology - the...
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Collecting on the Isles of Scilly | Natural History Museum
Lying off the coast of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly are home to a unique range of wildlife. To help support future research, scientists from the Museum are performing a series of field trips to gather fresh, good quality specimens to...
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How Neanderthal are you? Tracing our genetic ancestry | Natural History Museum
Scientists examining the evolutionary history recorded within our DNA are uncovering the global human story in greater detail. Watch the film to discover what DNA analyses taught six well-known figures, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Clive...
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The oldest human footprints in Europe | Natural History Museum
A series of footprints that were left by early humans around 900,000 years ago have been discovered by a team of scientists led by the British Museum, Natural History Museum and Queen Mary University of London. The footprints left in...