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The Museum has launched the second season of our original video series, Science Bites! Our scientists explain the how and why behind headline news, as well as the science you see in your own backyard.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist John Demboski talks about introduced species and how they have become a part of our daily lives.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Holen talks about the quest to identify the time period in which humans first arrived in the Americas.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Whitey Hagadorn looks at oil and wind and how those sources fit into the ever changing energy equation.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Marc Levine takes an anthropological look at piracy and considers how social and political issues have driven piracy throughout history.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell discusses why outbreaks are of bed bugs are increasing, and what people can do to protect themselves against these biting bugs.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Lee brings what we know about the red planet into sharper focus.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Paula Cushing explains why spiders should be known as the good guys and not the bad guys.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, explains the law that's helping thousands of cultural items get returned to the Native American tribes to which they belong.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell explains how the combination of pine bark beetles, fungus, and people have turned many of the green forests in Colorado into a blanket of rust red.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientists Ian Miller and Richard Stucky show how studying the past can help us figure out how humans may be changing the future of our planet.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Nash explains that our closest human ancestors, the Neanderthals, might be more related to us than we previously thought.
In this Science Bite, David Grinspoon, scientist for the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission, explains how volcanic eruptions on Venus may help us understand climate change here on Earth.
The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva that spans the border between Switzerland and France. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Ka Chun Yu explains this brave new world of physics.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Bridget Coughlin explains a potential new -- and less invasive -- treatment that would allow people to grow their own arteries.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson explains how an international team of scientists came to the conclusion that a single, giant asteroid was the real dinosaur killer.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Nicole Garneau explains how very small changes in your DNA can have a huge impact on the way things taste.
In this first Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson tells us why earthquakes happen and how mountains are born.