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Route 66

Endangered Site: Historic Route 66, U.S.A.

The 2,400 mile highway was eclipsed by interstate highways that bypassed neon signs of roadside diners
March 2009 | By Megan Gambino

Bar pilots risk their life to guide ships

Steering Ships Through a Treacherous Waterway

Braving storms with high seas a group of elite ship pilots steers tankers and freighters through the Columbia River
February 2009 | By Matt Jenkins

A Boeing 707 disturbs a colony of sooty terns during takeoff

The Perils of Bird-Plane Collisions

When airlines want to investigate dangerous bird strikes against planes, they turn to the head of the Smithsonian’s Feather Identification Lab
January 16, 2009 | By Sarah Zielinski

Ceremonial palanquin

Easy Rider

January 2009 | By Anika Gupta

a salt-making site at the village of Teguidda-n-Tessoumt in arid northern Niger

Africa on the Fly

Dangling from a paraglider with a propeller on his back, photographer George Steinmetz gets a new perspective on Africa
January 2009 | By Abigail Tucker

Canoe

Spirit of the Sea

Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past
September 2008 | By Megan Gambino

Traffic jam

The Truth About Traffic

Author Tom Vanderbilt Shows Why Cars and People Don’t Mix
August 25, 2008 | By Abigail Tucker

Termite digestion of wood pulp

Termite Bellies and Biofuels

Scientist Falk Warnecke's research into termite digestion may hold solutions to our energy crisis
August 01, 2008 | By Julia Olmstead

trans-siberian railway

A World on Rails

A journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway offers inspiring sights, from snowscapes to wildlife
July 2008 | By Sally McGrane

Sea Stallion

Raiders or Traders?

A replica Viking vessel sailing the North Sea has helped archaeologists figure out what the stalwart Norsemen were really up to
July 2008 | By Andrew Curry

Driving Miss Lazy

The race is on for cars that drive themselves
November 14, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Sky King

Pan Am founder Juan Trippe turned Americans into frequent fliers
November 2007 | By Owen Edwards

Mary Celeste

Abandoned Ship: the Mary Celeste

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging
November 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Boom times: diesel from soybeans at a New Jersey plant that opened in February

Who's Fueling Whom?

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

Seeking Friendlier Skies

Can radar networks eliminate airplane turbulence?
September 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

President Bush recently gathered some of the country

The World After Oil

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

Modern-day rickshaws use bicycle pedals (often assisted by small motors), are primarily three-wheeled and can be canopied or completely enclosed.

Rickshaws Reinvented

The ancient transportation takes a modern turn
March 01, 2007 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

Orient Express

A Brief History of the Orient Express

Spies used it as a secret weapon. A president tumbled from it. Hitler wanted it destroyed. Just what made this train so intriguing?
March 01, 2007 | By David Zax

The steamboat Arabia, shown here in a 1991 painting, vanished on Sep. 5, 1856.

Pay Dirt

When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
December 2006 | By Fergus M. Bordewich

The USS Oriskany, one of the hardest fighting ships in the fleet, now rests on the Gulf floor, 212 feet down, a new attraction for marine life—and divers.

R.I.P., Mighty O

A fabled aircraft carrier sunk deliberately off the coast of Florida is the world's largest artificial reef
November 2006 | By Geoffrey Norman


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