Lemurs Are the Most Endangered Mammals on the Planet, And This Adorable Baby Is Their Future

The vast majority of lemur species are facing extinction, but this baby Coquerel's safika is trying to help
February 01, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

The FBI Once Freaked Out About Nazi Monks in the Amazon Rainforest

In October 1941, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover received a strange bit of war intelligence in a classified document
February 01, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Air Pollution Has Been a Problem Since the Days of Ancient Rome

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

Welcome to America’s Dinosaur Playground

Countless bones and a billion years of geological action make Dinosaur National Monument the go-to park for fossil finds
February 2013 | By Mary Roach

The History of Rocket Science

When was the first-ever rocket built?
February 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Lost and Found Again: Photos of African-Americans on the Plains

What would otherwise be a local-interest story became a snapshot of history integral to the American experience
February 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

How Long Can Turtles Stay Underwater and Other Questions From Our Readers

You asked? We answered
February 2013 | By Smithsonian magazine

Five Great Places to See Evidence of First Americans

Encounter the fossils and other remnants of the lives left behind by the continent’s original settlers
February 2013 | By Guy Gugliotta

The Komodo Dragon is an All-Purpose Killing Machine

A visit to one of Indonesia’s most popular tourist destinations could be your last
February 2013 | By Brendan Borrell

How to Save a Dying Language

Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish
February 2013 | By Ariel Sabar

The House Where Darwin Lived

Home to the naturalist for 40 years, the estate near London was always evolving
February 2013 | By Rebecca Stott

New Research Disproves Prehistoric Killer-Comet Theory (Again)

Maybe the problem here is that other prevailing theories of the Clovis’ decline are just super boring by comparison
January 31, 2013 | By Lauren Kirchner

A New Disease, a New Reason to Hate And Fear Ticks

A worrisome new tick-borne disease, similar to Lyme disease but caused by a different microbe, turned up in 18 patients in southern New England
January 31, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

New X-Ray Technology To Reveal Secrets Beneath a Rembrandt Masterpiece

By 1984, conservators had discovered that there was, indeed, another figure hidden beneath the Old Man in Military Costume, but they haven't been able to see who it is
January 31, 2013 | By Lauren Kirchner

Riding a Hundred-Foot Wave, Surfer Breaks His Own World Record

Garrett McNamara said he felt awe, joy and excitement as the massive wall of water approached - but no fear
January 31, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

China’s Air Pollution Is So Bad That One Entrepreneur Is Selling Fresh Air in Cans

It’s a bleak state of affairs indeed when a Mel Brooks schtickfest from the '80s actually predicts the future
January 31, 2013 | By Lauren Kirchner

Americans Buy So Many Wings, They’re Now the Most Expensive Part of the Chicken

Each February, the nation's thirst for chicken wings hits the roof, making the delicate wing the most expensive bit of the bird
January 31, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans

Jazz is synonymous with the Big Easy, and there’s no bigger name in the history of the genre than Satchmo
January 31, 2013 | By Nina Fedrizzi

U.S. Military Wants to Recruit the Smartest Dogs by Scanning Their Brains

The theory is that, by scanning a dog’s level of neural response to various stimuli, including handler cues, the researchers will be able to identify the dogs that will be the quickest learners and therefore the easiest to train
January 30, 2013 | By Lauren Kirchner

People Have Been Eating Curry for 4,500 Years

Thanks to new research methods and a pile of (very old) dirty dishes, archaeologists have discovered the very ancient origins of a globally popular cuisine.
January 30, 2013 | By Lauren Kirchner

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