Articles

The Empress Dowager Cixi

Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne

The concubine who became China’s last empress

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Decade by Decade: Major Events in Women's History

Explore some of the most significant achievements made by women in the past century

Doug Fine

Doug Fine, Journalist, New Mexico

How an ambitious experiment in ecological living led to a goat pen

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Game Cats

Kanini and Quincy

Reaching 60 feet long and weighing up to 20 tonnes, the whale shark is the world's largest fish

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings

Two Bighorn rams

Tracking the Bighorns

Where do the elusive mountain climbers go? Researchers have finally learned some answers

American Laurie Marker (with Chewbaaka, a cat she raised after it was caught in a trap as a 3-week-old) is the world's expert on cheetahs.

Rare Breed

Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?

National Zoo researchers (with Ume) are experimenting with cheetah fertility.

Breeding Cheetahs

A typical 19th-century phrenology chart

Electrocybertronics

Marketing through pseudoscience

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Q&A With the Rhino Man

Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros

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Saving the Cheetah

National Zoo scientist Adrienne Crosier discusses how scientists are using artificialinsemination to rescue the species

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That's a Lot of Turtle Soup

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Color Crazed

The show that opens today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, "Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975," is to say the least, colorful

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Rose Marie's Black Bow Now in the Smithsonian

Nine legendary actresses donate artifacts from their work on the stage and screen

Biofuel Reality Check

Criminal Element

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The Horns Got Hot at the Pyramids

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Python Invasion?

Burmese pythons move into the Everglades

Fans of Koolhaas's CCTV skyscraper call it "gravity-defying", but critics claim it's nothing more than an expensive playtoy-and that the money would have been better spent reducing the country's runaway wealth gap

Beijng Redux

The capital hasn’t seen this kind of makeover since the Mongols overtook the city, but a new Beijing may not be what’s best for a modern China

Are Pythons Coming to Your Neighborhood?

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