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• Gale Crater to be landing site for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory

  22 July 2011

  

   

• Nakhla meteorite

  29 June 2011

  

   

• Pink tourmaline “Nautilus” pendant enters National Gem Collection

  23 May 2011

  

   

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

  17 May 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira talks about how he became a scientist and why he loves his work

  29 April 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian geologist Liz Cottrell talks about what it takes to be a scientist.

  18 April 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian geologist Liz Cottrell discusses the March 11, 2011 Japan earthquake and its mechanics

  15 March 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian Digital Repository Now Contains 10,000 Items

  2 February 2011

  

   

• Device at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center examines how phytoplankton would react if the ozone layer vanished

  7 January 2011

  

   

• Prehistoric bird able to yield extreme fighting force with club-like wings

  5 January 2011

  

   

• Ancient megalake discovered beneath Sahara Desert

  10 December 2010

  

   

• National Museum of Natural History acquires gemstones in honor of its 100th anniversary

  3 November 2010

  

   

• Cullinan Blue Diamond Necklace

  30 September 2010

  

   

• Geologist Liz Cottrell puts Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption into perspective

  17 May 2010

  

   

• Book Review: Planetary Tectonics examines otherworldly landforms

  5 April 2010

  

   

• Smithsonian geophysicist Bruce Campbell explains his work of making a detailed radar map of the Moon

  28 December 2009