Why Golfers Might Need Earplugs
The golf course would seem to be a quiet and peaceful place, so why did an audiologist recommend that some golfers wear earplugs?
Picture of the Week—Great Barrier Reef
When I visited friends in Australia earlier this year, I made visiting the Great Barrier Reef a priority
A Year of Wild Things — Orcas, Alligators, Caterpillars, Lizards, and More!
The Wild Things column in the magazine is, by far, the most fun part to work on
Eight Great Science Stories From the Magazine in 2008
The week before the new year is a time for reflection, right? And so I though I would share my favorite stories from the magazine
Picture of the Week—Christmas Tree Cluster
If it is clear out tonight, grab your binoculars or a telescope and look up at the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn
Spiders Are Not As Old As We Thought
The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago
Missing: Arctic Rubber Duckies
Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
Clean Coal Advice From Doctor Who
We have gotten conflicting information on clean coal—that mythic technology that would let us burn all the coal we want without any carbon emissions
Picture of the Week—Jupiter and Ganymede
How far we have come from 1609, when Galileo Galilei first aimed his telescope towards the little twinkly dots in the sky and saw stars and planets
Lessons in Space Exploration From Lewis and Clark
The similarities between the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 to 1806 and a manned mission to Mars are not immediately obvious
What Would YOU Do With a Fusion Bomb?
Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book
The Language of Drunkenness
How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
More Bad News for the Salmon
Earlier this year, in “On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon,” Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
Some Whispering Bats Might Need a New Name
These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
Sixteen Years of Black Hole Watching Pays Off
How do you prove that a black hole exists? It is so dense, not even light can escape its grasp
Leap Second Added to Your Calendar
The official Keepers of Time will add a leap second to the world’s master clocks (in the U.S. Naval Observatory) on December 31 at 23:59:59 UTC
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