The Smithsonian has launched a new spooky voting competition, meant to award not the kindest, best-looking or most eco-friendly Santa Claus, but the scariest character ever designed and printed on a piece of paper.
Some of the photos included in the ample gallery are funny, others give us chills down our spine and ... |
23 December 2011
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Researchers from the Smithsonian reached the conclusion that the coral reefs' biodiversity has been significantly underestimated. This statement was made after experts evaluated the potential of a tropical surface measuring 20.6 square feet (6.3 square meters). They discovered that it shelters as many crab spe... |
4 November 2011
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For all intents and purposes, the space shuttle Discovery is bound to be delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC. However, before that is done, NASA engineers will have another go at the spacecraft, performing an autopsy of sorts.
The procedure is necessary because the orbiter... |
16 March 2011
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Recent developments appear to indicate that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC and the NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, will receive a space shuttle each, for permanent display. The soon-to-be-retired orbiters don't yet have an official home, but preparations at the two facilit... |
17 December 2010
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Last year marked the first time an underwater robotic vehicle (glider) crossed the Atlantic Ocean, demonstrating that doing so is possible. Several months after, other gliders were used to quell the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Today, December 9, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural H... |
9 December 2010
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Officials with the Intrepid Sea-Air and Space Museum are currently going out of their way to secure one of the three remaining space shuttles for the institution. They say that New York City deserves a shuttle all by itself.The American space agency is currently planning to retire its three-orbiter fleet in mid-... |
24 November 2010
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Microsoft Surface can be a better fit to education scenarios than all the analog, traditional tools used together, and the new “The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!” exhibit opened on November 9th, 2010 at the Smithsonian is an illustrative example of this. Available at the center of the Castle’s h... |
11 November 2010
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Officials at NASA say that they still don't know for sure what will happen to space shuttle Discovery after it returns from its last planned flight, the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Discovery is now ready to fly to the orbital facility, and it is scheduled to launch on Wednesday. It w... |
1 November 2010
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According to officials at the JPL, one of the cameras that was on the Hubble Space Telescope has just been shipped away from the facility, and will now head for display elsewhere. This instrument is known informally among space enthusiasts as “The Camera That Saved Hubble,” and it played a hugely importan... |
14 October 2010
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Engineers at the American space agency are currently well underway to getting the long-retired space shuttle Enterprise ready for its last flight. The spacecraft, which has been on display since 1985, was the first NASA prototype for the Shuttle Program, and has been on display in a Smithsonian museum ever since. Now... |
17 March 2010
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When working in a doctor's office, you would expect to encounter nothing but patients all day, plus the occasional inspections. But a doctor in Virginia got more than he signed up for, when a meteorite came crashing through the roof of the building. Fortunately, according to sources, no one got hit or injured du... |
22 January 2010
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In an attempt to address the downfall of the planetary ocean, as well as in order to provide a live learning place for scholars or for curious people, the Smithsonian museum will house the Sant Ocean Hall, a place where both living and fossil specimens from the depths of the oceans are exposed. The deepest leve... |
25 September 2008
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