Famous Scientists

What Would YOU Do With a Fusion Bomb?

Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book

Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below

The Body of Copernicus Is Identified

The famed astronomer wasn’t always so well known

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I Thought Darwin Studied Finches

The large eyes of a red dragonfly.

Bugs, Brains and Trivia

No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition

Galileo

Galileo, Reconsidered

The first biography of Galileo Galilei resurfaces and offers a new theory as to why the astronomer was put on trial

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Organization Man

Carl Linnaeus, born 300 years ago, brought order to nature's blooming, buzzing confusion

Nicolaus Copernicus

Copernicus Unearthed

Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the 16th century astronomer who revolutionized our view of the universe

35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson

After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?

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The Year Of Albert Einstein

His discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math

The complete duplicating outfit including Edison's electric pen

A Wizard's Scribe

Before the phonograph and lightbulb, the electric pen helped spell the future for Thomas Edison

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What a Difference the Difference Engine Made: From Charles Babbage's Calculator Emerged Today's Computer

The incredible world of computers was born some 150 years ago, with a clunky machine dreamed up by a calculating genius named Charles Babbage

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