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News & Blogs Studies Find Life’s Building Blocks in Bennu Asteroid Samples Analysis of asteroid samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest space rocks might have ingredients for life. January 31, 2025 News & Blogs Volcanic Ash Analyses Could Improve Eruption Forecasting New study based at Canary Islands volcano suggests that magma composition determines scale of volcanic tremors. January 16, 2025 News & Blogs New Dataset Makes 3D Scans from Primate Collections Available Worldwide Museum leads effort to assemble more than 6,000 3D scans of primate skeletons in free digital repository. January 8, 2025 News & Blogs Cambrian Predator and Prey Highlight “Arms Race” During the Rise of Animals New study presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race, from 517 million years ago. January 3, 2025 News & Blogs Researchers Identify New Trilobite Species Research in the Museum’s historic trilobite collections revealed two different species under one name. November 26, 2024 News & Blogs New Tool Can Aid in Early Detection of COVID Variants New software can signal the emergence of new COVID strains and could be used in future pandemics. October 31, 2024 News & Blogs First Brown Dwarf Discovered is Actually Twins New research finds that Gliese 229B, co-discovered by Rebecca Oppenheimer in 1995, is two tightly spiraling brown dwarfs. October 16, 2024 News & Blogs Ancient Climate Change Led to Lower Congo River Fish Diversity Molecular study finds that fish speciation occurred in dry periods, when populations were isolated in pockets of water. October 1, 2024 News & Blogs Black Hole Plasma Beam Increases Nova Explosions New research based on Hubble observations finds that stellar explosions double in vicinity of supermassive black hole jet. September 26, 2024 News & Blogs New York State Fossils Reveal Extra Set of Trilobite Legs A trilobite species with well-preserved fossils from upstate New York had an additional set of legs underneath its head. September 12, 2024 News & Blogs Mammals Grew Slower In the Jurassic Than Today, Study Finds New fossils reveal that mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs grew more slowly and lived longer than mammals today. July 24, 2024 News & Blogs New Study Reveals Three Distinct Species of Frog-eating Bats Once thought to be a single species, the fringe-lipped, or frog-eating bat has at least three species across its range.  June 28, 2024