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From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing
The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy
An American couple’s ingenious research challenges the popular notion that baboons and other monkeys are almost human
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A Glimmer of Hope in The Sunset
Wayne Sentman on the extremely endangered Hawaiian monk seal
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More than 400,000 albatross pairs nest on Midway Atoll, which is now the site of an extraordinary National Wildlife Refuge
Famed for their “floating-on-air” gaits, Arabian horses run in 100-mile races and ask for more
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Popular “snore and roar” sleepovers give visitors an up close nighttime adventure with animals
Their habitat is disappearing fast, but San Joaquin kit foxes are finding ways to survive
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
Robots that feed themselves could become self-propelled farm machinesor military snipers
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
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
Extending a Recording Discoveries and Innovation
High schoolers ask: would metamorphosis aboard a space shuttle mission yield normal butterflies?
Steve King embarks on a whale-watching odyssey
Smithsonian astronomer Margaret Geller plotted the bubble structure of the universe. Now she’s working to find out how it got that way
The star of one of nature’s most spectacular spring shows is losing ground and may be headed for the federal Endangered Species List
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