In the U.S. there is no royalty, but as Jeffrey Post, curator emeritus of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, points out, “There is still a fascination about ...

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Leader’s celebration of Lexington’s 250 years introduces you to a woman known simply as Mona by her family in Louisville and ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., and lead author of one of the Nature papers released today, pointed out that especially when ...

NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," said Tim McCoy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History ...

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Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

Tim McCoy, co-author of the study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, DC, said these salty crystals formed by this evaporation bear a strong resemblance ...

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