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Mountain Gorilla Rangers Negotiate Safe Passage in Congo
One of the first Smithsonian articles I worked on was last year’s Guerrillas in Their Midst, about the endangered mountain gorillas of Rwanda and Congo
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Welcome to Our Sister Blog, Surprising Science
A new blog keeps in line with our obsessions
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The Body of Copernicus Is Identified
The famed astronomer wasn’t always so well known
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Picture of the Week – A Newly Restored Photo of the Earth and Moon
This week’s Picture of the Week is the Earth as seen from the Moon, circa 1966.Thinking ahead, NASA sent five missions up to photograph the moon
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When Will There Be Herds of Mammoths?
With the announcement that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, it seems natural to ask when we will finally see live mammoths
A Chemistry Lesson at the American History Museum
Spark!Lab at the National Museum of American History, which reopens on Friday after extensive renovations
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Get to Sleep Before You Lose Your Senses and Your Money!
If you don’t get back to sleep, you risk forgetting what you learned, impairing your ability to learn, and preventing yourself from extracting concepts
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Amazing animations from the USGS of a magnitude 7.8 scenario earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California
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Sabertooth Cat: More Like a Lion or a House Cat?
It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones
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And the Next Species Predicted to Be Lost to Climate Change is…
…the antilopine wallaroo, a type of kangaroo that lives in wet, tropical areas of Australia
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No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition
Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions
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