Science Bites

The Museum has launched the second season of our original video series, Science Bites! Our scientists explain the how and why behind headline news, as well as the science you see in your own backyard.

Invaders Everywhere

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist John Demboski talks about introduced species and how they have become a part of our daily lives.
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Humans in the Americas

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Holen talks about the quest to identify the time period in which humans first arrived in the Americas.
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The Energy Equation

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Whitey Hagadorn looks at oil and wind and how those sources fit into the ever changing energy equation.
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The Social Science of Piracy

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Marc Levine takes an anthropological look at piracy and considers how social and political issues have driven piracy throughout history.
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Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell discusses why outbreaks of bed bugs are increasing, and what people can do to protect themselves against these biting bugs.
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Magnificent Mars

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Lee brings what we know about the red planet into sharper focus.
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The Truth About Spiders

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Paula Cushing explains why spiders should be known as the good guys and not the bad guys.
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Restoring History

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, explains the law that's helping thousands of cultural items get returned to the Native American tribes to which they belong.
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Blue Fungus, Red Forests

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell explains how the combination of pine bark beetles, fungus, and people have turned many of the green forests in Colorado into a blanket of rust red.

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Tropic of Colorado

In this Science Bite, Museum scientists Ian Miller and Richard Stucky show how studying the past can help us figure out how humans may be changing the future of our planet.
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The Neanderthal in You

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Nash explains that our closest human ancestors, the Neanderthals, might be more related to us than we previously thought.
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Hot News From Venus

In this Science Bite, David Grinspoon, scientist for the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission, explains how volcanic eruptions on Venus may help us understand climate change here on Earth.
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Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva that spans the border between Switzerland and France. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Ka Chun Yu explains this brave new world of physics.
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Modern Heart Medicine

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Bridget Coughlin explains a potential new -- and less invasive -- treatment that would allow people to grow their own arteries.
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Asteroid Theory

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson explains how an international team of scientists came to the conclusion that a single, giant asteroid was the real dinosaur killer.
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Genetics of Taste

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Nicole Garneau explains how very small changes in your DNA can have a huge impact on the way things taste.
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Earth in Motion

In this first Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson tells us why earthquakes happen and how mountains are born.
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