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Material necessary for life on Earth may have been delivered by asteroids like Bennu
Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...
Natural History Museum%2c London2 天
Ocean temperature rise accelerating as greenhouse gas levels keep rising
As the Earth absorbs more energy from the Sun and reflects less back into space, much of the excess heat is being funnelled ...
Natural History Museum%2c London2 天
First in-depth analysis of NASA’s Bennu sample return reveals conditions for life were ...
Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid whose components have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system's early days. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission captured samples from the surface of the asteroid and ...
Natural History Museum%2c London10 天
Mysterious Martian mounds formed by ancient water
The mounds lie north of a feature of Mars known as the Martian dichotomy, where the towering, ancient highlands of the ...
Natural History Museum%2c London5 年
Host-Parasite database
Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...
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First dinosaurs may have evolved in northern Africa and South America
By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...
Natural History Museum%2c London10 天
Mystery mounds reveal the history of water on Mars: study discovers erosion the size of the UK
Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...
Natural History Museum%2c London9 年
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Use % as a wildcard in the Associate species field to return all species in your host genus (NB - this will exclude records for which the associate species is not known). Note: it has not been ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Botany collections
The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...
Natural History Museum%2c London5 年
The Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium
The Sloane Herbarium contains volumes 1-7 of plant specimens collected on Sloane's voyage to Jamaica (1687-1689). During his voyage to Jamaica, Sir Hans Sloane collected the first plant specimens to ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Study and events
We offer courses for different abilities, so if you are a postgraduate student looking for further study opportunities, a professional looking to upskill or someone who wants to learn more about our ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Darwin Centre
Explore science and nature in the Darwin Centre's Cocoon, meet experts at Attenborough Studio events, and see specimens close up in the Zoology spirit building. Drop in to the Centre for UK Nature in ...