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...study published in July by a Harvard-Smithsonian Center postdoctoral student has uncovered important clues about the disputed explanation for dwarf galaxies beyond the gravitational effects of the Local Group, a group of more than twenty galaxies including the Milky...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dwarf Galaxies’ Existence Explained | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Gurtina Besla, a Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and D’Onghia’s co-researcher, explained that this study took a new perspective by looking at the interaction of galaxies that have similar masses...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dwarf Galaxies’ Existence Explained | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...that of the Freemasons (whose motto ordo ab chao, order out of chaos, could be Brown's). Langdon is summoned - dude is always getting summoned - to Washington, D.C., by a mysterious phone call that he thinks is coming from his old friend and mentor Peter Solomon, head of the Smithsonian. Langdon thinks he's going to give a speech at a Smithsonian fundraiser at the Capitol building. But when he shows up, there's no fundraiser and no speech, just Solomon's severed hand, grotesquely tattooed, stuck on a spike in the Capitol rotunda. Oh, snap. (Read "Freemasons: Fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Hangover, $272.2 m, $168.3 m, $440.5 m 5. Star Trek, $257.1 m, $126.4 m, $383.6 m 6. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $194.2 m, $613.8 m, $808 m 7. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $180 m, $183.5 m, $363.4 m 8. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $176.7 m, $227.6 m, $404.4 m 9. The Proposal, $161.1 m, $109.8 m, $271 m 10. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Tyler Perry's Bad Does Good | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...economic crisis and promoting the arts at the same time. The tenacious, successful performance of the summer jazz series and the open-air Sculpture Garden constitute a significant step forward for accessible art. In addition, the National Gallery of Art has no admission fee. Neither does the world-famous Smithsonian Institution, designed to serve as the nation’s attic...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: It's a Free Country! | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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