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News & Blogs Scientists Find Elusive Cloud-forming Chemical on a Brown Dwarf Called ‘The Accident’ Finding of silane on an unusual cosmic object advances knowledge about ancient planetary atmospheres. September 12, 2025 News & Blogs Studies Reveal Fish Biofluorescence Dates Back 112 Million Years Fish biofluorescence evolved more than 100 times, has ties to coral reefs, and involves more colors than previously thought. June 17, 2025 News & Blogs Astronomers Find Complex Atmosphere on a Starless World James Webb Space Telescope data provide evidence of cloud layers and more on an isolated object 13 times the mass of Jupiter. March 12, 2025 News & Blogs Birds-of-Paradise Found to Be Biofluorescent New study based on Museum’s collections suggests biofluorescence enhances signaling for hierarchy and courtship displays. February 13, 2025 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