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How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?
Of all the dinosaur mysteries, how dinosaurs like the 23-ton Apatosaurus mated is one of the most perplexing
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How Smart Does a TV Need to Be?
Sure, they’re big and they’re flat. But TVs still aren’t that bright. This, however, could be the year they start acting more like smart phones
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Lab-grown Babies in the Year 2030
A 1930 book argued that women’s “liberation from the dangers of childbirth” would be a crucial first step toward gender equality
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Who Was the First to Discover Dinosaur Eggs?
Despite an immense wave of publicity heralding the discovery of dinosaur eggs in 1923, French paleontologists had discovered them decades earlier
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When Uncle Sam Backs Your Film
How Act of Valor is only the latest in a long history of official military involvement in the film industry
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Charles McIlvaine, Pioneer of American Mycophagy
“I take no man’s word for the qualities of a toadstool,” said the man who took it upon himself to sample more than 600 species
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The Wandering Albatross and Global Warming
The giant oceanic birds are producing more and plumper chicks, at least for now
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Sugar of Lead: A Deadly Sweetener
Did ancient Romans, Pope Clement II or Ludwig van Beethoven overdose on a sweet salt of lead?
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New Zealand’s Darkest, Bloodiest Secret: The Sandfly
Kiwi recommendations for stopping the biting beasts: DEET, geranium leaves, garlic, rancid bacon, Marmite, Vegemite. Does anything really work?
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How Much the Hope Diamond is Worth and Other Questions From Our Readers
From American art, history and culture, air and space technology, Asian art and any of the sciences from astronomy to zoology, we’ll find an answer
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The plot to kill Michael Malloy for life-insurance money seemed foolproof—until the conspirators actually tried it
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What Happens Before a Volcano Blows?
Volcanologists thought that the buildup to an eruption would take centuries. But this report adds to a suspicion that it can happen faster than expected
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Judging a Dinosaur By its Cover
A new study suggests that you can distinguish different hadrosaur species by their pebbly hides alone
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What You See When You Turn a Fish Inside Out
Scientists use X-rays to classify different species, but when viewed outside the lab, the images provide stunning art
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Introducing Smithsonian Magazine on the iPad
All the history, travel, science and culture you love in a new and exciting format
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Bedtime Reading From Beatrix Potter: Amateur Mycologist
Would Flopsy, Mopsy and Peter Cottontail have been conceived had it not been for the biases of Victorian era science?
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What Ever Happened to the Short Film?
Why short films still win Oscars
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10 Bright Ideas to Get You Through February
It’s not easy to think happy thoughts this time of year. But here are some examples of innovative thinking that remind us it will get better
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