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The Unfinished Attack of the Dinosaurs

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Science Contests Across the Web

The Zoo’s three pandas, here Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, require a constant supply of bamboo, a plant that is not very nutritious, especially for animals, like pandas, that are natural carnivores.

Feeding the Animals at the National Zoo

After hiring the first animal nutritionist 30 years ago, the National Zoo prepares specific, well-balanced meals for each animal

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Why We Don’t Have a Baby Panda

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Tyrannosaurus on the Pitcher’s Mound

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Book Review: Footprints of Thunder

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Help Defend Against the Invaders

They have come to our country from all over the world, brought here in the bowels of ships, in the cargo holds of planes, even on the bottoms of our shoes

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Picture of the Week—Alabama Science Class, 1939

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Walking with Dinosaurs in Melbourne

"Woman teaching geometry" Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements (c. 1310 AD)

Female Scientists Aren’t THAT Rare

There are plenty of deserving women who never got so much as a nod.

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Mammoths are Dwarfed by Dinosaurs in Ice Age 3

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results.

Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design

Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now

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Science Writers Have Fun Today

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Dating a Dinosaur

Fossil prospector Ron Frithiof (with a mosasaur from his collections) was sued over a T. rex that he uncovered. "This whole experience," he says, "has been a disaster."

The Dinosaur Fossil Wars

Across the American West, legal battles over dinosaur fossils are on the rise as amateur prospectors make major finds

Joshua Tewksbury and colleagues study whether the hot stuff in chili fruit deters bugs that may carry fungus.

Ask Smithsonian 2017

What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers?

An American ecologist travels through the Bolivian forest to answer burning questions about the spice

Volvo introduced the three-point seat belt 50 years ago.

Buckle Up Your Seatbelt and Behave

Do we take more risks when we feel safe? Fifty years after we began using the three-point seatbelt, there’s a new answer

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Wolves, hibernating animals, spitting cobras and more

Tangier Island is located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of the Maryland line.

Tangier Island and the Way of the Watermen

In the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, a culture struggles to survive as aquatic life becomes scarce

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Blog Carnival Edition #6 — Extinction, Tokyo Museums, and the Official State Dinosaur of Texas

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