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“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults like the Lee-Lincoln fault, probably result in landslides and boulder falls ...

Aerospace and Our Changing Environment Learn how aerospace innovations contribute to understanding, monitoring, and mitigating climate change.

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of 94.5–99.5% when comparing multiple samples from the same animal. The technique ...

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In popular culture, the Sopwith Camel was Snoopy’s plane of choice. The anthropomorphic dog in the “Peanuts” comic strip, one ...

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World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and ...

American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, town names, advertising, and that holiday in November.

Object Details Author Ertter, Barbara California Native Plant Society East Bay Chapter University of California, Berkeley Herbarium Jepson Herbarium Notes "April, 1997." "Checklist maintained as a ...

About Launch into the history of flight by surrounding yourself with icons of air and space travel. The flagship building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, exhibits aircraft, spacecraft, ...