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Lessons in Space Exploration From Lewis and Clark
The similarities between the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 to 1806 and a manned mission to Mars are not immediately obvious
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What Would YOU Do With a Fusion Bomb?
Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book
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How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
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Earlier this year, in “On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon,” Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
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Some Whispering Bats Might Need a New Name
These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
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Sixteen Years of Black Hole Watching Pays Off
How do you prove that a black hole exists? It is so dense, not even light can escape its grasp
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Leap Second Added to Your Calendar
The official Keepers of Time will add a leap second to the world’s master clocks (in the U.S. Naval Observatory) on December 31 at 23:59:59 UTC
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What Did You Do in College? These Students Discovered a Planet
That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet
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