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Traveling Light' Has New Meaning for Jet Laggards

From light therapy to melatonin, research into our bodies' daily rhythms has led to promising treatments for weary travelers

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Mapping the Margins

It's a violent world at the edges of our continental shelves, which could serve as a geology textbook

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Smithsonian Perspectives

The Smithsonian's gardens and greenery are things of beauty and delight as well as utility

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Unearthing Secrets Locked Deep Inside Each Fistful of Soil

To scientists at the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa, it's not just dirt they are probing — it's the planet's sustaining surface

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Not Your Average Backyard Gardener

Ganna Walska pursued life with a passion, from husbands to opera to plants. Her legacy is Lotusland, an exotic California garden

An Orphanage for Some Big Babies

Daphne Sheldrick has turned her Nairobi home into a nursery and rehabilitation center for infant elephants who have lost their families

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Around the Mall & Beyond

An all-day Saturday seminar on spices - one of the many programs on the Mall, around the world, even in cyberspace, offered by the Smithsonian Associates

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If Rocks Were Worth Money, a Hilltop Farmer Could Get Rich Quick

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When Uncle Sam's "Fish Cops" Reel in a Suspect, He's Usually a Keeper

Agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service often work undercover gathering the evidence needed to make arrests stick

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You Can Call Him 'Cute' or You Can Call Him 'Hungry'

The much-maligned weasel is always on the lookout for something to eat, and the rest of us should be grateful he usually finds it

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Phenomena, Comment and Notes

As scientists probe deeper into whether animals really have consciousness, questions arise. If they think, do we want to know what they think about us?

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Following the Footsteps of Fox and Bear

Naturalist-sleuth Susan Morse and her fellow conservationists at Keeping Track monitor wildlife in order to pinpoint critical habitat

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Smithsonian Perspectives

In the ever-expanding field of anthropology, the Smithsonian still excels in research and exhibition

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When One of the National Zoo's Gorillas Goes In For Tests, It's Not Just Standard Operating-Room Procedure

By discovering heart disease early, echocardiograms have improved life; now Washington cardiologists are using them to help great apes at the National Zoo

A cock and a hen roosting together

Feathered Fights of Fancy

No ordinary fowl, these birds have been bred for visual delight. For many an owner, they are just too pretty to eat

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The Berry and the Poison

Methyl bromide makes our fields fruitful; it will soon be banned, not because it's toxic and it's very toxic but because it attacks the ozone layer

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What's in a Name? Sometimes More Than Meets the Eye

Jokes, puns, even insults — when it comes to deciding what to call newly discovered species, scientists don't always go by the book

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Around the Mall & Beyond

Since her arrival in September, baby Chitwan has charmed visitors and curators alike. This is the first birth of a rhino at the National Zoo since 1974

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Phenomena, Comment and Notes

Experiments at sea show we can cause phytoplankton to bloom in areas where it otherwise would not

Kauai Wildlife Refuge

A Onetime Rancher Wages Lonely War to Save Rare Plants

Working alone, by hand, one man is turning 100 acres of alien trees into a refuge for Hawaii's endangered botanical treasures

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