The earth is big, and so are the tectonic plates—it doesn’t seem possible that anything humans could do to the earth would have an effect on those plates
A senior editor visited the Galapagos - here's what she saw
Braving storms with high seas a group of elite ship pilots steers tankers and freighters through the Columbia River
The AP reported earlier this week that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is spewing a drug soup into the waters of a town near Hyderabad
On this blog, several of the staff of Smithsonian magazine have been debating who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin
We asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin? T.A. Frail took up the fight for Lincoln, and Laura Helmuth argued for Darwin
Recently, someone here at Smithsonian asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin?
The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse
Next month we celebrate an odd double anniversary—the 200th anniversaries of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science
Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it
There are 118 elements in the periodic table, from hydrogen to ununoctium
Explosives and machines are destroying Appalachian peaks to obtain coal. In a West Virginia town, residents and the industry fight over a mountain's fate
The week before the new year is a time for reflection, right? And so I though I would share my favorite stories from the magazine
Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
We have gotten conflicting information on clean coal—that mythic technology that would let us burn all the coal we want without any carbon emissions
The similarities between the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 to 1806 and a manned mission to Mars are not immediately obvious
The official Keepers of Time will add a leap second to the world’s master clocks (in the U.S. Naval Observatory) on December 31 at 23:59:59 UTC
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