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Adorable andean bear cubs

Bear Care: Bear Awareness Days at the National Zoo

The Bear Awareness Days event raises awareness about the animals in general and teaches about conservation issues that affect all bear species

A photographic update on Lisa's fledgling garden

Life, Death and Unnatural Acts in the Vegetable Garden

My first epiphany was that gardening has a lot more to do with encouraging death than life

The Mamenchisaurus centerpiece in the "World's Largest Dinosaurs" exhibit.

Name a Giant Dinosaur

Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now

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Bluebrain’s Soundtrack for the National Mall

DC electro-pop duo Bluebrain have released a location-aware album app that serves as a soundtrack for the National Mall

Best/Worst dressed dinosaurs

Blog Carnival #32: Scientist Stereotypes, Sauropod Necks, Dinosaur Facts and More

The best of what’s being written about dinosaurs in the blogosphere

Shango’s most popular symbol, the double ax staff signifies the diety’s ability to reward the good and punish the bad.

Weekend events June 3-5: Thunder God, Craft Invitational, Jazz at American Art

Events for the weekend of June 3-4 include jazz, a Nigerian art lecture, and Family Day at the Renwick

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Watch a Trombone’s Shock Wave

Scientists have generated the first video of a shock wave from a trombone

A Daily Food Guide. This graphic illustrates the four food group system that preceded the food pyramid model.

USDA Demolishing the Food Pyramid

USDA began offering nutritional advice in 1894. We had 12 food groups in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, four in the 1950s, then a pyramid and now a plate

This aerial photograph shows 68 whale sharks feeding (and four snorkelers swimming) at the Afuera in August 2009.

How Do You Feed A Whale Shark?

Whale sharks gather off of the Yucatán Peninsula every summer for one big feeding frenzy

Tracks made by a medium-sized theropod on a slab of rock just outside of Moab, Utah.

Dinosaur Diamond: Moab’s Potash Road

The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs. At a few spots, it’s easy to see the animals’ tracks

A bar-headed goose flies over India

The Goose That Flies Over the Himalayas

The bar-headed goose spends its winters at sea level in India and its summers in central Asia

Eileen Collins, the first female pilot and first female commander of a space shuttle mission, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, 1999.

Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell Featured in NASA|ART

These famous artists and many others are among those with works in the Air and Space Museum’s newest art exhibit

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.

Events May 31-June 3: Space Race, George Ault, Mummies Sneak Peek, Meet a Scientist

The event listings for the week of May 31, 2011

The reconstructed skeleton of "Brontosaurus" from W.D. Matthew's 1915 book Dinosaurs.

Two Views on How to Make a Baby Sauropod

It took a long time—and a new understanding of sauropod lifestyles—to figure out whether they laid eggs or gave birth to live young

Mint chocolate chip ice cream

Inviting Writing: Food and Sickness

The one food I had thought to stock was a half-gallon of ice cream—mint chocolate chip—and once the nausea passed it became my sustenance for the next week

Feral cats can roam over great distances, a new study finds.

The Secret Lives of Feral Cats

Free-roaming, unowned kitties live differently from our beloved pets

Continuum, the 2011 National Design Award winner in the Product Design category, designed the air bladder fit control system for the Reebok Pump sneaker in the late 1980s, among other successful products.

National Design Award Winners Announced

The Cooper-Hewitt’s 2011 National Design Award winners are an impressive group of thinkers

Putting beer koozies to the test.

Science in the Public Interest: The Beer Koozie Test

How well do beer koozies actually work at keeping your beverage cold?

Scientists use satellite images of the kelp canopy (here, as seen from underwater) to track this important ecosystem over time.

A New View Into California’s Kelp Forests

Satellite imagery is providing new insight into an important ecosystem just off the California coast

The horns of Marsh's Bison alticornis, now recognized as those of a ceratopsian dinosaur.

When Triceratops Was a Giant Bison

The giant with the “three-horned face” was originally mistaken for a very different creature

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