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...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—has announced the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species...
...only are these photographs of the same house, but also of two sides of the same wall, a possibility supported by the patterns of light.BACK THEN, THEY HAD CAMELS“Vanished Kingdoms” has traveled well in the past four years, making many stops (including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) since the photographs made their public debut in 2003 at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum.Harvard’s Peabody Museum, which co-organized the exhibition with the Peabody Essex, is the show’s last stop, and it warrants a visit before...
...fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," said Xavier Delfosse, an astronomer with Grenoble University in France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times, "It's 20 light-years [away]. We can go there." (Sasselov did not make it clear just how we'd make that 120 trillion mile trip when it still takes us eight months to cover the 35 million miles to Mars...
...Quasars light up because gas is falling down toward them, which heats up through friction like a rocket reentering the atmosphere,” said Martin S. Elvis, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and a co-author of the study...