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• Smithsonian hydrologist discovers that rainfall has dried up Panama’s drinking water

  17 May 2011

  

   

• National Museum of Natural History’s coral collection used in Caribbean agricultural and sewage pollution study

  17 May 2011

  

   

• Mars polar dunes

  12 May 2011

  

   

• Recent eruptions in the Crab Nebula mystify astronomers

  12 May 2011

  

   

• Changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate, scientists find in new National Zoo study

  12 May 2011

  

   

• Joe Louis’ Boxing Gloves, 1936

  10 May 2011

  

   

• Study reveals environmental impact of American Indian farms centuries before Europeans arrived in North America

  9 May 2011

  

   

• Pac-Man Telephone, 1982

  9 May 2011

  

   

• New Mathias Lab at Environmental Research Center will have low environmental impact

  9 May 2011

  

   

• Saturn’s moon Titan

  5 May 2011

  

   

• Stunning high-resolution NASA images available online for public exhibits

  5 May 2011

  

   

• Falling trees help invasive wineberry move into deciduous forests in North America

  3 May 2011

  

   

• First rainforests arose when plants solved their plumbing problem

  3 May 2011

  

   

• Lexington Racehorse, 1878

  2 May 2011

  

   

• Leafsnap, a new mobile app that identifies plants by leaf shape, is launched by Smithsonian and collaborators

  2 May 2011