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• Scientists race to determine why vines are taking over forests in the American tropics

  14 February 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian ornithologist publishes new guide to the birds of Panama

  10 February 2011

  

   

• Skeletal casts of early hominin ancestor from Africa donated to National Museum of Natural History

  10 February 2011

  

   

• Narwhal fluke design helps compensate for drag caused by tusk

  9 February 2011

  

   

• Muhammad Ali Headgear, 5th Street Gym, circa 1973

  8 February 2011

  

   

• Astronomers appraise the amount of water in the Orion Nebula

  7 February 2011

  

   

• Power of Chocolate

  4 February 2011

  

   

• Only large, fast-flying bats can handle life in the big city; small bats can’t adapt

  3 February 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian Digital Repository Now Contains 10,000 Items

  2 February 2011

  

   

• Harriet Tubman’s Personal Hymn Book, 1876

  1 February 2011

  

   

• Hand-Held Door Knocker for Mail Carriers, 1863

  1 February 2011

  

   

• New study examines how planetesimals influence the development of a planetary system

  31 January 2011

  

   

• American Indian Researchers launch project with Quechua peoples near Pisaq, Peru

  28 January 2011

  

   

• New interactive World Wide Telescope tour chronicles career of Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer John Huchra

  28 January 2011

  

   

• Tiger numbers could triple if large-scale landscapes are protected

  26 January 2011

  

   

• Rising ocean temperatures and acidity may deliver deadly one-two punch to the world’s corals

  24 January 2011