Editors' Picks

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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How an unlikely mix of environmentalists and free-market conservatives hammered out the strategy known as cap-and-trade
August 2009 | By Richard Conniff

A select group of adventurers climb the world’s tallest trees to learn more about the wildlife that lives on the highest branches
March 31, 2009 | By Peter Beland

Braving storms with 20-foot seas, an elite group of ship pilots steers through one of the world's most treacherous waterways—the mouth of the Columbia River
February 2009 | By Matt Jenkins

Explosives and giant machines are destroying Appalachian peaks to obtain coal. In a tiny West Virginia town, residents and the industry fight over a mountain's fate
January 2009 | By John McQuaid

The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
December 2008 | By Michelle Nijhuis

Part of the sea glass hunting elite, Nancy and Richard LaMotte are finding the treasures they covet harder to come by
October 07, 2008 | By Abigail Tucker

For the Yup'ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world
October 01, 2008 | By Kim O’Donnel

For the first time there's no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.
October 2008 | By Abigail Tucker

September 01, 2008 | By Jesse Rhodes

The world's largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems
September 2008 | By Christopher Pala

A Battle Against Noise Aims to Save Our Natural Soundscapes
August 06, 2008 | By Garret Keizer

Whatever the variety—commercial hybrid or precious heirloom—the plump juicy "vegetable" has a place in our hearts
August 2008 | By Arthur Allen

A food-poisoning scare spurs debate
August 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

How to stop global warming? CO2 "scrubbers," a new book says
June 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

The trouble with "videophilia"
April 2008 | By Megan Gambino

A look at man-made and natural causes that are threatening the Earth
September 24, 2007 | By Smithsonian.com

Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero
January 2008 | By Tom Shachtman

Making Your Holiday Tree Eco-Friendly
December 12, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Amazon research that has withstood thieves and arsonists now faces its greatest challenge
December 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

As the planet warms up, eco-friendly fuels can't get here fast enough
April 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

With the world's coral reefs in crisis, the author's childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas
February 2006 | By Gordon Chaplin

How mercury gets into tuna and other fish in the ocean has scientists searching from the coast to the floor
September 27, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

One hundred fifty years after the publication of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is helping scientists monitor global warming
October 2007 | By Michelle Nijhuis

Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas
November 2007 | By Richard Conniff

Pent-up water and steam threaten to burst through the park's surface. (And we're not talking Old Faithful here)
July 2004 | By Kevin Krajick

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