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January 27, 2009

January 26, 2009

We asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin? T.A. Frail took up the fight for Lincoln, and Laura Helmuth argued for Darwin

January 26, 2009

January 23, 2009

Recently, someone here at Smithsonian asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin?

January 23, 2009

The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse

January 23, 2009

Next month we celebrate an odd double anniversary—the 200th anniversaries of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin

January 22, 2009

January 22, 2009

Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence

January 22, 2009

Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin and nearly outscooped Darwin’s The Origin of Species

January 22, 2009

January 21, 2009

January 21, 2009

Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science

January 20, 2009

Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it

January 19, 2009

January 17, 2009

January 16, 2009

Did you hear? A western lowland gorilla named Mandara gave birth last Saturday at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

January 16, 2009

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

January 15, 2009

Here at Smithsonian, we’re big fans of the Amazing Randi, not least because he’s a fan of the magazine (he told us so)

January 15, 2009