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Leafcutter ants—first in agiculture and antibiotics
Leafcutter Ants—an amazing species that has been employing agriculture and antibiotics for some 50 million years. [...more]
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NEW ACQUISITION: Remains of William Taylor White (1837-1852) donated to Smithsonian with his coffin and clothing
White, who was a student at Columbian College from Accomack County, Va., died of pneumonia and complications from a mitral heart defect. When his coffin was unearthed, his identity was a deep mystery. [...more]
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Julia Child prepares “Primordial Soup” at the Smithsonian
Julia Child cooks up a batch of primordial soup and explains how these simple ingredients produce amino acids - the building blocks of life. This video played in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Life in The Universe gallery from 1976 until the gallery closed. [...more]
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Smithsonian scientist discovers two new bat species hiding in museum collections for more than 150 years
While studying bats recently at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Smithsonian mammalogist Kristofer Helgen discovered a new species of flying fox bat from Samoa in the Academy’s collections that had been preserved in alcohol since 1856. That discovery inspired him to study early Samoan collections in other museums more closely, leading Helgen to discover [...] [...more]
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Fossils Show Prehistoric Global Warming
For those who think that global warming is a 21st-century phenomenon, Scott Wing, a scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, has news about the past. [...more]
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Meet our Scientists—Videos!
Caught on camera!This short video of an ocelot was taken by Smithsonian scientists during a recent camera-trap survey of these animals in the Peruvian Amazon. [...more] |
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