Recent Posts (Page 39)

• New study proves the remora’s sucker disc is in fact a highly modified dorsal fin / Q&A with taxonomist David Johnson

  8 February 2013

  

   

• Earth-like planets discovered right next door to Earth

  6 February 2013

  

   

• “Darwin: A Graphic Biography,” new release from Smithsonian Books

  4 February 2013

  

   

• Common tropical bat uses echolocation with precision previously considered impossible, new experiments reveal

  25 January 2013

  

   

• HI-C adds big piece to the solar corona puzzle

  24 January 2013

  

   

• NASA’s IRIS spacecraft scheduled to launch in April

  23 January 2013

  

   

• Tiny new Peruvian opossum comes from a great big family

  22 January 2013

  

   

• National Zoo orangutans turn high-tech with apps for apes

  22 January 2013

  

   

• 4,000-year-old shaman’s stones discovered near Boquete, Panama

  14 January 2013

  

   

• First “bone” of the Milky Way identified

  9 January 2013

  

   

• First detailed sex video of deep-sea squid resolves long-standing mysteries as to how these animals mate

  9 January 2013

  

   

• Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have changed little in 46 million years

  7 January 2013

  

   

• Wild ginseng in steep decline in Maryland, survey reveals: Q&A with Smithsonian botanist Christopher Puttock

  4 January 2013

  

   

• Scientists discover long-beaked echidna may not be a thing of the past in Australia

  2 January 2013

  

   

• Warming climate unlikely to cause near-term extinction of ancient Amazon trees, study says

  18 December 2012

  

   

• Panama’s slime molds get attention from Arkansas University grad student

  13 December 2012