How Many Ugandan Mountain Gorillas?
Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence
Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin and nearly outscooped Darwin’s The Origin of Species
Darwin on Lincoln and Vice Versa
Two of the world’s greatest modern thinkers are much celebrated, but what did they know of one another?
The White House’s First Celebrity Dog
Bo, the Obama’s First Pooch, has a legacy to live up to in Laddie Boy, the family pet of President Harding
A Welcome to the Obama Administration’s Scientist Appointees
Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science
The Ghost of Inaugural Lunches Past
Now its a pageant, but the post inauguration meal used to be a pretty mild affair
An Antarctic Scientist’s Advice for Surviving the Cold
Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it
Picture of the Week—Baby Gorilla
Did you hear? A western lowland gorilla named Mandara gave birth last Saturday at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
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
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