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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Scientists have found life in the depths beneath the ice
June 2013 | By Erica R. Hendry

Rising waters have forced populations to relocate since the dawn of early man
June 2013 | By Brian Fagan

The promise of oil has heated up a global argument over the Arctic’s true borders
April 2013 | By Amy Crawford

The one gem that can rival the Hope Diamond is finally on display at the Natural History Museum
March 2013 | By Jerry Adler

Researchers at MIT are investigating how to turn houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into mini-power plants
March 2013 | By James Holloway

By testing ice cores in Greenland, scientists can look back at environmental data from millennia past
February 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough looks at how our scientists are studying our changing climate
February 2013 | By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

An underground scientist is pioneering a new way to learn what the climate was like thousands of years ago
January 2013 | By J. Madeleine Nash

Smithsonian scientists have taken to the Chesapeake Bay to investigate how marshlands react to the shifting environment
January 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

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