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Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected ...
Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...
If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now—but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings—what would you put on it? In 1977, two Voyager spacecraft ...
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images ...
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What are Trust Fund positions? Trust fund positions are unique to the Smithsonian. They are paid from a variety of sources, including the Smithsonian endowment, revenue from our business activities, ...
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Object Details Author Roller, Duane W Subject Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C Contents Introduction -- Cleopatra's ancestry and background -- The Ptolemaic heritage and the involvement with Rome -- ...
Shadella Davis is the Smithsonian ombuds (formally known as ombudsman). As ombuds, she serves as a neutral third party to whom employees, supervisors, and affiliated staff can bring any work-related ...