Recent Posts (Page 49)

• New genetic evidence confirms coyote migration route to Virginia and hybridization with wolves

  26 October 2011

  

   

• Frigid water cloud may be source of water delivered to dry planets by comets

  24 October 2011

  

   

• Complete evolutionary tree of the Hawaiian honeycreepers traced by Smithsonian scientists, collaborators

  20 October 2011

  

   

• Two closely related bee species discovered far apart in Panama and northern Colombia

  20 October 2011

  

   

• Tree dwelling animals were first to fly, study shows

  18 October 2011

  

   

• Dark matter mystery deepens

  17 October 2011

  

   

• New Book: “Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose”

  17 October 2011

  

   

• Suitor’s gentle massage soothes aggressive, cannibalistic female spiders, researchers find

  14 October 2011

  

   

• Super tough seed coat keeps Michaux’s sumac on critically endangered list

  13 October 2011

  

   

• Infrared survey reveals fewer near-Earth asteroids than previously thought

  13 October 2011

  

   

• Crab pulsar dazzles astronomers with its gamma-ray beams

  6 October 2011

  

   

• Center for Astrophysics project gets first look through new ALMA telescope

  5 October 2011

  

   

• President Barack Obama recognizes outstanding scientists at the Smithsonian

  5 October 2011

  

   

• Dodo bird a resilient island survivor before the arrival of humans, study reveals

  26 September 2011

  

   

• Location matters: For invasive aquatic species, it’s better to start upstream

  25 September 2011

  

   

• What makes rainforests unique? History, not ecology.

  23 September 2011