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Saving Mali’s Migratory Elephants
A new photo library of West Africa’s desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
Hazy Days In Our Parks
The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate new rules to curb pollution, scientists find sources are far-flung
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Killers In Paradise
The tropics are home to the world’s most venomous creatures-jellyfish with 4 brains, 24 eyes and stingers that can kill you in a minute flat
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The Year Of Albert Einstein
His discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math
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Your Branch or Mine?
Fireflies’ come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who’ve found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
Seeing a Ghost
A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas
Science Matters
The Institution decides to focus on four basic questions
Fire in the Hole
Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming
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Life on Mars?
It’s hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
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Tribal Fever
Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
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Evolution on Trial
Eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of “Monkeytown” still say Darwin’s for the birds
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Conquering Polio
Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
Invention at Play
The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us
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Child of Wonder
Cristián Samper’s lifelong love of flora and fauna inspires creative new displays of the world’s largest collection
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Future Shocks
Modern science, ancient catastrophes and the endless quest to predict earthquakes
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A Puzzle In the Pribilofs
On the remote Alaskan archipelago, scientists and Aleuts are trying to find the causes of a worrisome decline in fur seals
Invasion of the Snakeheads
The voracious “Frankenfish” has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon
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Back Home On The Range
When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
Our Adaptable Ancestors
Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans
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Stop the Carnage
A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce “the most serious threat to African wildlife”
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