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Transforming Raw Scientific Data Into Sculpture and Song

Artist Nathalie Miebach uses meteorological data to create 3D woven works of art and playable musical scores

Photos: The Uneasy Conflict Between Artificial and Natural Light

Artist Kevin Cooley has traveled the world capturing landscapes where one light shines on the horizon

Could Solar Panels on Your Roof Power Your Home?

Researchers at MIT are investigating how to turn houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into mini-power plants

Science Beats

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A Smithsonian geologist offers her expertise on the seismic event that shook much of the mid-Atlantic this week
August 24, 2011 | By Megan Gambino

Satellite images of mountains, glaciers, deserts and other landscapes become incredible works of art
June 09, 2011 | By Erin Wayman

Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner demonstrates how she turned trash into the building blocks for one community's revival
June 2011 | By Arcynta Ali Childs

Biologist George Schaller on the debate over ANWR conservation and why the refuge must be saved
March 10, 2011 | By Molly Loomis

J. Henry Fair's aerial photographs of industrial sites provoke a strange mix of admiration and concern
January 2011 | By Megan Gambino

Town Brook gave sustenance to the Plymouth’s early settlers, but years of dam building have endangered the struggling stream
November 22, 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

A mineralogist believes he's discovered how life's early building blocks connected four billion years ago
October 2010 | By Helen Fields

Dams, irrigation and now climate change have drastically reduced the once-mighty river. Is it a sign of things to come?
October 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Scientists are just beginning to grasp how profoundly oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has devastated the region
September 2010 | By Michelle Nijhuis

Solar technologies being pioneered in Spain show even greater promise for the United States
August 2010 | By Richard Covington

Grow fruits and vegetables in city towers? Advocates give a green thumbs up
August 2010 | By T. A. Frail

For scientists in a remote corner of coastal North Carolina, ignoring global warming is not an option
August 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

Energy harvested from our bodies will make possible mind-boggling gadgetry
August 2010 | By Michael Belfiore

The economist discusses the stresses that climate change and a greater world population will have on our food supply
August 2010 | By Amanda Bensen

Food security experts say these crops, if grown more widely, could help feed the hungry
August 2010 | By Amanda Bensen

Asked to imagine life in 2050, the artist Guy Billout, author of the mind-bending book Something's Not Quite Right, wonders why the quest for alternative energy has overlooked the volcano.

Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell discusses the effects of the Icelandic volcanic eruption and the work of the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program
April 22, 2010 | By Erica R. Hendry

From Mt. Etna to China to the Sahara, these striking satellite images of air pollution are from both natural and man-made causes
April 20, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Paleontologists are looking to the fossil record to decipher what the earth's atmosphere was like hundreds of millions of years ago
April 19, 2010 | By Brian Switek

In 1970, the United States created the EPA and passed the Clean Air Act, marking the beginning of the struggle to curb pollution
April 19, 2010 | By Brian Vastag

More than 150 years after acid rain was first identified, scientists now see success in recovery from its damaging effects
April 19, 2010 | By Cassandra Willyard

Scientists converge on the northernmost city in the United States to study global warming's dramatic consequences
March 2010 | By Bob Reiss

Geologist Bernhard Edmaier has been photographing the majestic beauty of active and dormant volcanoes for over 15 years
December 02, 2009 | By Abby Callard

New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
November 03, 2009 | By Kyle Dickman

Can a remote, geologically weird island in the South Pacific forecast the fate of coral reefs?
September 17, 2009 | By Christopher Pala

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