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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 ...

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 ...

Kogod Courtyard Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Eighth and G Streets N.W.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries ...

Object Details Author Brainerd, John Grist 1904- Koehler, Glenn Reich, Herbert Joseph 1900- Woodruff, Louis Frank 1896- Notes Lithoprinted. "Intended to cover the course outlined by representatives of ...

The Statue of Liberty is one of our nation's most enduring symbols and is well represented in the collections with art, posters, stamps, memorabilia, and more. Take a closer look at our Statue of ...

Thomas Akre, head of the Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...