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This article, which discussed the "Secret World Inside You" March 2017 exhibit, revealed the secret world as inhabited by microbes. It’s a vast world, when considering the ratio of microbes to human cells. It’s also a vital world. In this article, the author considered the role microbes play in human survival in terms how the digestive tract, immune system, and brain function with their assistance.
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Art and science interconnect with the work done by Joana Ricou. As Carla Burgess revealed, samples of microbes Ricou took from belly buttons (what she dubbed “the other self”). Through these samples, Ricou was hoping to understand how the microbial world inhabiting human beings shapes their identities. Samples slide images became a group selfie that contained microbes from two dozen plus participants.
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Trey Lee and authors from ScienceX Magazine were among the producers of this issue’s articles. Two studied microbes’ impact on humans and humans’ impact on endangered species such as freshwater mussels and Raleigh’s Umstead State Park’s wildlife. Two others discussed taxonomy and remains of two WWII marine vessels. Three profiled honeybees, deep diving birds like the gannet, and a program teaching natural science to special populations
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Examples of Dino bling, according to new research from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, were the bony crests, horns, and knobs that may have served mating, territory, or defense purposes. Speculated also, according to author Tracey Peake, was a correlation between the shrinking bodies of dinosaurs and the disappearance of crests, horns, and knobs in favor of feathers.
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According to Christina Stone, among the creatures inhabiting Museum’s Living Conservatory Exhibit, the most popular creature is one ironically also described as reclusive: Two Toed Sloth. Noted about the Two Toed Sloth were procedures performed during its yearly check-up and factors to account for when creating a safe habitat for this animal.
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Scientists landing on a comet will have implications beyond advancing the study of the solar system, according to the author. Included in Dr. Rachel L. Smith’s discussion of her study, led by the European Space Agency, were Philae, who lent humans a robotic hand in the crew’s discoveries, and findings from the Rosetta Mission.
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Included in Rachel L. Smith’s companion article to “Comet Landing Makes History” was an article that offered new information about how planets form. What lent this new information was the discovery during the Rosetta Mission of HL Taurus, a protoplanetary system. Profiled also of Dr. Smith called “HL Tau” were the telescope used, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), and H-Tau’s features, such as unusual oxygen chemistry.
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Human’s experience of our galaxy, in terms of extreme weather such as tornadoes and heavenly bodies such as stars, was featured in two of the articles part of this collection. Topics covered in the remaining trio were related to creatures inhabiting what lies below the heavens. One, by Lindsay Zanno, discussed how a bird’s skull lent a special sort of realism to a production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. Another revealed new morphological data issued from the study of a rare dinosaur, therizinosaur. The last was a dinosaur lecture series held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, one of the lecturers being Dr. Mary Schweitzer.
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This article, a companion to “What a Croc: Introducing the Carolina Butcher,” discussed the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that existed in NC at the same time as the Carolina Butcher. Included in the article was the number of remains, unique anatomical features, and how Aetosaurs came to be the ancestor to the crocodile.
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Included in this article was information about the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Citizen Scientist, and Neighborhood Nestwatch. All information was designed to encourage readers to get more interested in the great outdoors, in particular birds.
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Information about skunk offspring, as well as the female skunk’s birthing and spraying habits, were the focus of the article. Included was also the question about what came first: the ability to spray or the motive to develop this ability?
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This article profiled the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Research Curator of Crustaceans position, its retiree (Dr. John Cooper) and his successor (Bronwyn Williams). Cooper’s contributions included serving as a reference for environmental managers. Williams’ contributions included providing information about specimens she collected in the Northwest.
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For this edition’s sextet of articles, the focus was on contributions to the science field— research grants, a new museum, and activities to instill a love for science in children.
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Spy tactics used by Washington’s army included invisible ink, a hollow coin, and a woman disguised as a mentally ill man. The real mystery to readers, though, may be how these tactics could be successful, because of their lack of modern technology and problems particular to their spy tactics that cropped up along the way.
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Tools for discovering the migration patterns of egrets included a solar powered GPS and seven of the species. The greatest contribution for the study, though, came from the unique migratory story each bird had to tell in this tale.
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