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Marine protected areas improve health, wealth of nearby communities: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Ocean conservation, sustainable livelihoods, and food security do not have to be mutually exclusive. A new study led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre (SERC) shows that limiting human activity in parts of the ocean can improve the health of marine environments as well as the w
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Marine protected zones improve health, wealth of nearby communities: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A new study led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre (SERC) demonstrates that limiting human activity in parts of the ocean can improve the health of marine environments and the well-being of nearby coastal communities, highlighting the potential value of these marine protected a
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2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone to
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to new research led by researchers with the National Museums of Kenya, Liverpool John Moores University, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever discovered to b
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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.
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New research reveals exact shape of the halo of stars existing in our gala
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The cloud-like diffusion of stars, which almost appears like a disk in pictures, has long been believed to be spherical in shape. However, new research coming from a team of scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics proves otherwise.
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Scientists find the factors influencing behaviour of whale shark
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): A new research led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life and the University of Panama revealed that the globe-trotter is the largest fish in the ocean that can be found basking in the coastal wa
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Isha Ambani appointed to Board of Trustees of Simthsonian's National Museu
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI): Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced Isha Ambani's appointment to the Board of Trustees.
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Smithsonian collecting items from Capitol riots to document violence that
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): The Smithsonian is collecting items from the last week's riots at the US Capitol to document the violence that shook the world.
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Growing up stardust: Scientists discover that stars, planets may be siblin
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], October 8 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered that the planets begin forming while stars are still infants and they grow up together like siblings.
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], September 23 (ANI): Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for a life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard, and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured out how to determine wh
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Scientists look inside central engine of solar flare for first time
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], July 27 (ANI): Scientists from the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the New Jersey Institute of Technology on Monday announced the first successful measurement and characterisation of the 'central engine' of a large solar flare.
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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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