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Millions of years ago, leafcutter ants learned to grow fungi. But how? And why? And what do they have to teach us?
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A pair of Mexican miners stumble upon a room filled with what could be the world’s largest crystals
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Building to a Different Drummer
Today’s timber frame revivalists are putting up everything from millionaire mansions to a replica of Thoreau’s cabin
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Before “ecology” became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing
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Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico’s Bitter Lake Refuge
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A long-outdated approach to sulfur mining sends hundreds of Javanese workers deep into the crater of an active volcano
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Arizona Naturalist Pinau Merlin celebrates life in the desert by keeping a close eye on it
The unending quest for oil has now led drillers to vast reserves lying more than a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
High altitude, night-shining clouds are becoming more common, which could signal climate changes
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By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
City patterns, farm history, ancient seabeds, old mountains and new, the why of clouds: take a look
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
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For Dromedary Trekkers in Australia’s Outback, it’s Camelot in the Desert
Some say alchemy inspired our greatest scientist
Aggressive weed that “grows like the devil” and will not die is manna for sheep, cows and folks who use it to cure hangovers, weave baskets and make jelly
Every six months Smithsonian horticulturists give the Haupt Garden a makeover from the roots up
Vostok: Looking for Life Beneath an Antarctic Glacier
In what may be the world’s largest lake ever seen by a human eye, the search begins
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