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  1. SCIENCE IN PICS: Mars’s Medusae Fossae More Ancient Than Realized
    The Epoch Times logo The Epoch Times 4 hours ago

    But a particularly pocked area is older than one that has fewer craters, implying that the MFF is older than previously determined. Two planetary geologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, analyzed these extra craters and found that... Full Article at The Epoch Times

  2. Web-enabling Archive Digital Content
    The Bigger Picture 10 hours ago

    Accordingly, I have an entirely different perspective about my role here at the Archives. Archivists are focused on the content of our collections on a very fundamental level—they actually get to touch and feel the physical objects in our collections... Full Article at The Bigger Picture

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 weeks ago
    This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows John Gray. Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the...

    This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows John Gray. Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the... View Photo »

  4. The original album, 'Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours: Satchmo at the National Press Club,' had a limited pressing of 300 vinyl LPs. The new release [top], from the Smithsonian Institution's Folkways recording label, will be available as a compact disc, on iTunes , and from other digital sources. It marks on...
    SOURCE: bookofjoe 4 weeks ago
  5. Newly Discovered Organ Could Explain Size, Eating Habits Of Some Whales
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    Newly Discovered Organ Could Explain Size, Eating Habits Of Some Whales

    The US and Canadian biologists involved in the study located the organ at the tip of the chin of blue, humpback, minke and fin whales, contained within a batch of ligaments connecting the lower jaw bones, according to AFP reports published on Wednesday. Full Article at RedOrbit

  6. Scientists discover organ responsible for large size and eating capacity in whales
    The Money Times logo The Money Times 12 hours ago

    The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Smithsonian Institution funded the present study. The XRCT machine was a joint project with the University of Northern British Columbia and funded by the Canada Foundation for... Full Article at The Money Times

  7. New sensory organ discovered in whales
    Tom's Hardware Guide logo Tom's Hardware Guide 15 hours ago

    "We think this sensory organ sends information to the brain in order to coordinate the complex mechanism of lunge-feeding, which involves rotating the jaws, inverting the tongue and expanding the throat pleats and blubber layer," says Nick Pyenson, a... Full Article at Tom's Hardware Guide

  8. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 weeks ago
    Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is seen as it takes off for New York from Washington Dulles International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in Sterling, Va. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for...

    Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is seen as it takes off for New York from Washington Dulles International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in Sterling, Va. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for... View Photo »

  9. 3D digitization at the Smithsonian Institution.
    SOURCE: Directions Magazine 1 month ago
  10. Smithsonian Institute Unveils 9-11 Artifacts
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  11. How whales can take those big gulps
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    "We think this sensory organ sends information to the brain in order to coordinate the complex mechanism of lunge-feeding, which involves rotating the jaws, inverting the tongue and expanding the throat pleats and blubber layer," study researcher Nick... Full Article at MSNBC

  12. UBC, U.S. scientists identify organ that helps whales gulp up prey
    CBC News logo CBC News 1 day ago
    An artist's rendition of a fin whale, left, and the newly discovered sensory organ scientists found between the jaw bones of such whales. The nerve-filled chin cavity is responsible for co-ordinating the biomechanics of the extreme lunge-feeding strategy that rorqual whales use to gulp up prey.

    In fact, some have described the act of a blue or fin whale opening its jaws 90 degrees wide and taking a giant gulp of water as the largest biomechanical event on earth. Now, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian... Full Article at CBC News

  13. Green Blog: A Secret Behind the Whale's Mighty Gulp
    The New York Times logo The New York Times 1 day ago
    A fin whale filters water from its mouth after lunging for food. The engulfed water and prey expand the pleats of its white throat.

    Then she repeats the process again and again. This kind of feeding by whales – called lunge feeding – “is one of the largest biomechanical processes on Earth,” said Nick Pyenson , a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian Institution. Writing in the... Full Article at The New York Times

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  1. This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows John Gray. Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American...
  2. Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is seen as it takes off for New York from Washington Dulles International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in Sterling, Va. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the...
  3. FILE - In this April 27, 2012, file photo, provided by the Smithsonian Institution, space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, takes off for New York from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Sterling, Va. Enterprise has been separated from the...
  4. CHANTILLY, VA - APRIL 19: In this handout provided by NASA, Administrator Charles Bolden of NASA signs a document transferring space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian Institution as G. Wayne Clough (2nd L), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, John R. Dailey (R), director of...
  5. CHANTILLY, VA - APRIL 19: In this handout provided by Smithsonian Institution, space shuttles Enterprise (L)and Discovery sit nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Virginia. Enterprise, which...
  6. FILE- In this April 19, 2012, file photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution via NASA, space shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Va. Enterprise has been...
  7. In this photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution via NASA, space shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. Space shuttle Discovery...
  8. US space shuttle Discovery sitting atop NASA's 747 shuttle carrier aircraft flies over the Smithsonian Institution castle in Washington,DC on April 17, 2012 as it arrives from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to be displayed at the National Air and Space museum near the US capital.
  9. In this photo provided by NASA/Smithsonian Institution, Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flies over the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Washington. Discovery is en route from Kennedy Space Center to the Smithsonian National Air...

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  1. The original album, 'Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours: Satchmo at the National Press Club,' had a limited pressing of 300 vinyl LPs. The new release [top], from the Smithsonian Institution's Folkways recording label, will be available as a compact disc, on iTunes , and from other digital sources. It marks on...
    SOURCE: bookofjoe 4 weeks ago
  2. 3D digitization at the Smithsonian Institution.
    SOURCE: Directions Magazine 1 month ago
  3. The survey plans are being expanded to include observations around the tidal basin to the Jefferson Memorial and Lincoln Memorial, as well as other areas along the National Mall, including the Smithsonian Institution's Castle building, the U.S. Capitol, and eastward to Union Station
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  4. Under the supervision of the Center for Texas Music History, dozens of Texas State grad students wrote hundreds of articles for both the original and revised Handbook of Texas Music, the first of which has been showcased by the Smithsonian Institution and others
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  5. to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
    SOURCE: National Museum of American History 2 months ago
  6. We invite the public to help us welcome Discovery to the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
    SOURCE: Space.com 2 months ago

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