Mummies featured in new Smithsonian exhibition
The April 5 exhibits, “In the Mummy’s Tomb,” “Making a Mummy” and “What’s in a Face,” focus on Egyptian burial rites.
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Smithsonian scientists find declining rainfall is a major influence for migrating birds
“Our results support the idea that environmental conditions on tropical non-breeding areas can influence the departure time for spring migration,” said Colin Studds, a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Migratory Bird Center and lead author of the study.
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Smithsonian researchers help block ship-borne bioinvaders with new screening strategy
To help regulators and engineers develop and test such treatment systems, and ultimately enforce these standards, a team of researchers developed a statistical model to see how to count small, scarce organisms in large volumes of water accurately.
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Oysters on floating plates help scientists study acidification and shell growth
A team of scientists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., is taking a closer look at how rising acidification of ocean water may be impacting estuaries and near shore environments on the Chesapeake Bay
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X-ray stripes in exploded star may reveal highest energies of cosmic rays produced in our Galaxy
The discovery of a pattern of X-ray “stripes” in the remains of an exploded star may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher than...
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Facebook friends help scientists quickly identify nearly 5,000 fish specimens collected in Guyana
Faced with insufficient time and inadequate library resources to tackle the problem on their own, they instead posted a catalog of specimen images to Facebook and turned to their network of colleagues for help.
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New candidate for “coldest star” is same temperature as a hot cup of coffee
There is a new candidate for coldest known star: a brown dwarf with about the same temperature as a hot cup of coffee. That’s cool enough to begin crossing the blurry line between small cold stars and big hot planets.
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Artist’s recreation of 7- to 6-million-year-old early human unveiled in Hall of Human Origins
Meet Sahelanthropus tchadensis. This newly unveiled bust by artist John Gurche is now on view in the the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
