Science

Using Goats to Prevent Wildfires

Communities worried about the ravages of wildfires are embracing a four-legged solution

October 2001

Breathing Fire

October 2001

Head’s Up

From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing

October 2001

Harmonious Cord

October 2001

Stars in Their Eyes

The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy

September 30, 2001

Monkey Wrench

An American couple’s ingenious research challenges the popular notion that baboons and other monkeys are almost human

September 30, 2001

A Glimmer of Hope in The Sunset

Wayne Sentman on the extremely endangered Hawaiian monk seal

August 31, 2001

Where the Gooney Birds are

More than 400,000 albatross pairs nest on Midway Atoll, which is now the site of an extraordinary National Wildlife Refuge

September 2001

They Drink the Wind

Famed for their “floating-on-air” gaits, Arabian horses run in 100-mile races and ask for more

August 31, 2001

Camping at the Zoo

Popular “snore and roar” sleepovers give visitors an up close nighttime adventure with animals

August 2001

The Little Foxes

Their habitat is disappearing fast, but San Joaquin kit foxes are finding ways to survive

July 31, 2001

Suiting Up for the Honey Wars

July 31, 2001

Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

Once we didn’t know how aspirin works; now we know that it does a lot more than ease pain and inflammation

July 31, 2001

Living Off the Land

Robots that feed themselves could become self-propelled farm machines—or military snipers

July 2001

Message in a Bottle

By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents

June 30, 2001

Following the Track of the Cat

The Bushmen of Namibia are so good at reading the language of footprints they can tell what a leopard did the day before they started pursuing it

June 30, 2001

Smithsonian Science

Extending a Recording Discoveries and Innovation

May 31, 2001

Painted Ladies in Space

High schoolers ask: would metamorphosis aboard a space shuttle mission yield normal butterflies?

May 31, 2001

The Tail of the Whale

Steve King embarks on a whale-watching odyssey

June 2001

Mapping Galactic Foam

Smithsonian astronomer Margaret Geller plotted the bubble structure of the universe. Now she’s working to find out how it got that way

May 31, 2001