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New bacteria genome may help solve mystery of how methylmercury is made

A new bacterial genome sequence could help researchers solve a mystery as to how microorganisms produce a highly toxic form of mercury.

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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to help create frozen repository of sperm and embryonic cells for Great Barrier Reef corals

Researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and partnering organizations will build a frozen repository of Great Barrier Reef coral sperm and embryonic cells. Genetic banks composed of frozen biomaterials hold strong promise for basic and applied research and conservation of species and genetic variation.

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Scientists turn to social networking and citizen scientists to help keep track of amphibians

Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist with a camera can help scientists survey and hopefully save the world’s amphibians thanks to a new social networking site that links “citizen scientists” with researchers tracking the decline of amphibians around the globe.

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Ability to raft with flotsam and use non-reef habitats helps tropical fish journey to new places, study finds

Depending on where the fish disperse from, the use of ‘stepping stones', flotsam or simply being an adult can help in the journey to find a new home.

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Fossil feathers from a Hawaiian cave help reveal lineage of extinct, flightless ibis

Ornithologists Carla Dove and Storrs Olson used 700- to 1,100-year-old feathers from a long extinct species of Hawaiian ibis to help determine the bird’s place in the ibis family tree. The feathers are the only known plumage of any of the prehistorically extinct birds that once inhabited the Hawaiian Islands.

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First Eld’s deer born from in vitro fertilization with help of Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists

Nearly 20 years after the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute became the first to produce an Eld’s deer fawn through artificial insemination, SCBI scientists have now contributed to the birth of the first Eld’s deer via in vitro fertilization.

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Smithsonian scientists help build first frozen repository of Great Barrier Reef coral

Researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and other partnering organizations spent two weeks at the end of November collecting sperm and embryonic cells during spawning from two species of coral and have built the first frozen repository for the Great Barrier Reef.

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Uganda park rangers with cell phones may help stop next world influenza epidemic

Today, Marra is helping launch an Animal Mortality Monitoring Program in Africa intended to serve as an early warning system for emerging infectious diseases that can pass from animal populations into the human population.

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Is obesity predestined at infancy? Marmoset study may help scientists find out.

A new study of marmosets, small South American monkeys, indicates that obesity may begin very early in life and suggests that marmosets may be a helpful model for obesity in humans.

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Fancy footwork and non-stick leg coating helps spiders not stick to their own webs

Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and University of Costa Rica studying why spiders do not stick to their own sticky webs have discovered that a spider's legs are protected by a covering of branching hairs and by a non-stick chemical coating. Their results are published online in the journal, Naturwissenschaften.

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Can iPads help students learn science?

The scale of the universe can be difficult to comprehend. Pretend you are going to make a scale model with a basketball representing the Earth […]

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Penis spines help scientists identify bat species

Sometimes you need to look in unusual places to tell species apart. Some mammal species are easily distinguished by differences in their fur or skeletons, […]

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Satellite tracking helps with curlew conservation

Ever heard the joke about flying in from Mexico, and boy, are my arms tired? Try telling that to the blackpoll warbler. Researchers recently tracked […]

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This simple trick helped fix a wildlife water shortage in Cambodia

It is a simple solution to a wildlife water shortage. During the annual dry season [November through April] in a protected forest in eastern Cambodia, […]

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Digitized, Searchable Archives Help Revive ‘Sleeping’ Languages

Like other kids at summer camp, a group of youngsters in the cities of Miami, Okla. and Fort Wayne, Ind. play games, work on crafts […]

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Fossils help scientists build a picture of the past—and present

A word to the wise: don’t ask a paleontologist to pick a favorite fossil. It’s like asking your mother which child she loves most, or […]

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New Study Helps Smithsonian Scientists Prioritize Frogs at Risk of Extinction

Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and partners have published a paper that will help them save Panamanian frog species from extinction due to a deadly […]

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Did ripening fruit help hominids develop complex hands?

One of the primary features that distinguish hominids such as chimpanzees, gorillas and humans from the rest of the animal kingdom are uniquely dexterous hands. […]

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New technique may help authorities quickly ID real and fake ivory products

Fetching close to $1,500 per pound, ivory ranks fourth in black-market traded items just behind illegal drugs, weapons, and humans. Governments across the globe are […]

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DNA on 100-year-old bat from France may help fight deadly fungus in North America

A bat specimen collected in France at the end of World War I, since housed in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural […]

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Using genetics to help save world’s most trafficked mammal: the pangolin

One of Earth’s most evolutionarily unique species is also the world’s most trafficked mammal: pangolins, or “scaly anteaters.” A new study from the Smithsonian Conservation […]

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Flesh Eating beetles help prepare skeletons for study at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum

John Ososky, preparator in the Osteology Laboratory at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., explains how skeletons of animal specimens are prepared for exhibtion and for study—with the assistance of nearly 1 million flesh-eating beetles.

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Lion cub summer school: Instead of learning their ABCs, the National Zoo’s lion cubs are learning behaviors that will help animal care staff evaluate their health.

School's nearly back in session, but the seven young lions at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have been working hard through the summer months!

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Art to Help Boys Find Their Way

Inupiaq artist and teacher Holly Nordlum visited the National Museum of the American Indian to study Arctic objects and archival photographs in the museum’s collections. […]

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The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s newest female brown kiwi chick needs a name and you can help!

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Smithsonian scientists to help identify and eradicate invasive species in Alaskan waters

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., and the Alaska Sea Grant Program of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, were recently identified as the […]

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NASA to help Smithsonian botanists track northern creep of Florida mangroves

Candy Feller, senior ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., will lead an effort to track more than 100 miles of Florida mangrove forests that are encroaching on salt marshes to the north.

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Falling trees help invasive wineberry move into deciduous forests in North America

These opportunistic plants quickly fill-in the gap taking advantage of the increased light coming through the tree canopy and the fresh soil at the fallen tree’s turned-up roots.

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Toucans wearing GPS backpacks help Smithsonian scientists study seed dispersal

Nutmeg-loving toucans wearing GPS transmitters recently helped a team of scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama address an age-old problem in plant ecology: accurately estimating seed dispersal.

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Tiny, fierce and disappearing: breeding program aims to help the loggerhead shrike

Residents of the southeastern United States might occasionally come across an oddity along a barbed-wire fence: a series of insects, mice or even small birds […]

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