Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Scientists reveal what they found in sample taken from Bennu asteroid
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...
Coroner's Office criticised for 'blunt' handling of informing families specimens may have been collected from loved ones
John's brother Tony died in a motorcycle accident in the 1970s. But he's just discovered that parts of his brother's body may ...
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Field Museum Kicks Off Year of the Snake With a Big Reveal: a New King Cobra Species
Three new species of king cobras have recently been identified, and the Field Museum’s collection has been harboring one of ...
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Digitizing 6 million plant specimens: Interview with Gunter Fischer & Jordan Teisher
How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store ...
Field Museum snake collection used for fascinating discovery about king cobras
But while talking about snakes in general with Field Museum scientists would surely be fascinating unto itself, in this case, ...
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University of Rochester professor had a key role in keeping an important asteroid sample safe
Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...
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From paper to pixels, Mountain West researchers bring bee collections into the digital age
Digitizing the bee collections at museums could answer important questions like whether certain species are still buzzing in ...
Secrets of the Field Museum; the collection hidden behind closed doors
Field Museum visitors see less than 1% of its total collection. So where's the rest of it? CBS News Chicago went on a tour ...
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Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...