Skip to main content

Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote.

Smart News / Smart News Science

New Research

Schizophrenia Might Actually Be Eight Different Disorders

The finding could help researchers devise more effective treatments that are tailored for individual patients

New Research

The Average Prisoner Only Gets Two Visits While They Are Incarcerated

Prisoners who receive the most visitors, however, tend to do the best after they are released

The "skylight" appears as a light pink splotch atop this leatherback sea turtle's head.

New Research

Leatherback Sea Turtles Can Measure Sunlight Through Their Skulls

The anatomical skylight allows the turtles to synch up with the seasons

The primary landing site of Rosetta's Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is marked with a cross.

Trending Today

This Is Where Rosetta’s Lander Will Touch Down

The Philae lander will touch down at “Site J” In November

New Research

New Study: Blame Defective Wells for Fracking Leaks

Fixing shoddy wells could mean making fracking safer for the environment

New Research

This Map Shows Where All That Carbon Dioxide Is Coming From

Global carbon emissions have an obvious bias

Eruption at the Holuhraun lava field near Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland, September 2, 2014

Trending Today

Sinking At Icelandic Volcano Has Scientists Worried About Possible Eruption

Movement within Bardarbunga’s caldera has researchers watching the volcano closely

Cool Finds

Detroit’s Dumps Are Slowly Being Reclaimed By Nature

Some illegal dumping grounds in Detroit are being repopulated by hardy plants

Cool Finds

A 24-Year-Old Woman Just Discovered She’s Had a Hole in Her Brain Her Entire Life

This rare care demonstrates just how incredibly adaptive the human brain is

New Research

Fish Eat Mammals on the Regular

A new study indicates that in some ecosystems, mammals are a fairly normal foodstuff for fish

New Research

Saturn Is Making (And Destroying) Mini-Moons All The Time

Saturn’s F ring is a little moon factory

Rescue workers look through the ruins left by the August 3, 2014 earthquake.

New Research

Deadly Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Man-Made

More than 600 people died in the August 3 Yunnan earthquake

New Research

When We’re Lonely, Inanimate Faces Come Alive

Our minds are less particular about the source of comfort when we are craving contact with others

Trending Today

Enterovirus 68, a Rare Virus, Is Spreading Among Kids in the U.S.

The CDC reports that patients with the respiratory disease are showing up in hospitals across the country

New Research

The World’s Carbon Sinks May Be Running Out of Room

The Earth’s biosphere may be absorbing less carbon than it used to

Pew pew

Cool Finds

A Military Contractor Just Went Ahead And Used an Xbox Controller For Their New Giant Laser Cannon

The army’s new laser cannon is controlled with an Xbox controller

New Research

Why Networking Can Make You Feel Dirty

Pursuing relationships to forward your career aspirations triggers a sense of moral disgust

Cool Finds

Napa Earthquake Turned Dry Creeks Wet Again

“Miracle water” wets some of California’s dried streams

The projected path of asteroid 2014 RC past Earth on September 7, 2014

Cool Finds

Assumed Asteroid Remnant Leaves Crater in Nicaragua

A small rock from a passing asteroid left a crater in Nicaragua

New Research

Cockatoos Learn to Use Tools by Watching Each Other

With a teacher, Goffin cockatoo learn to use new tools more quickly

Page 463 of 537