Science / Video
The National Zoo gets a new state of the art Elephant Community Center complete with 8,943 square meters of romping room
Bees Drink Nectar From a Coffee Flower
Honeybees get a caffeine buzz and memory boost when they drink coffee nectar
Helping Underprivileged Children Hear
By 2020, the Starkey Hearing Foundation plans to donate one million hearing aids to kids in the developing world
A Comet Zooms Close to Earth This Month
Viewable to the unaided eye, the comet PanSTARRS will speed past our planet for the first and only time
This battery can be stretched to 300% its original size
NASA’s video of a solar flare from June 7, 2011
The Art and Science of Taxidermy
“Immortalized,” a new show on AMC, pits taxidermists against each other in a high-stakes competition
Watch Insect Outbreaks From Space
LandTrendr technology shows pine beetles infest a forest in the Pacific Northwest
MIT’s New Water-Powered Artificial Muscles
Scientists have created thin polymer sheets that expand and contract when in contact with water
Pardis Sabeti’s New Look at Infectious Disease
The American Ingenuity Award winner is on the brink of using the human genome to provide better diagnostics for deadly diseases
How the American Ingenuity Award winner plans to build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars
Cai Guo-Qiang Makes a 40-Foot-Tall Pine Tree Explode
Read more about the event here: http://j.mp/TyPfBO The world famous Chinese artist uses pyrotechnics to turn a 40-foot-tall pine tree into an optical illusion.
Jim Anderson’s Quest to Solve Climate Change
The American Ingenuity Award winner warns that no place on Earth is safe from the dangers of global warming
Watch the SpaceX Rocket Liftoff
The Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company founded by Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner Elon Musk, takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in May 2012
The Secret to Making Food Look Irresistible on Television
High-speed cameras and special effects help transform watching a commercial into a mouth-watering experience
This Millipede is the Leggiest Creature in the World
The newly discovered Lllacme plenipes has up to 750 legs, more than any other known creature
This Elephant Learned to Speak Korean
Koshik, an elephant in a South Korean zoo, learned to say five different Korean words (Still: iStock/ROMAOSLO)
The World Wildlife Fund films a family of western lowland gorillas in the Dzanga-Sangha reserve
First Glimpse of the National Zoo’s Panda Cub
Panda Cam captures Mei Xiang as she cradles her newborn
One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating
Biomimicry and Butterflies: How Nature is Inspiring Design and Innovation
More on biomimicry: http://j.mp/RI3OOB Scientists believe the iridescent wings of the morphos butterfly could be used in technology to benefit humans.
Recreating the Discovery Space Shuttle Fly-over With Cans
Follow team LEO A DALY as they replicate the Discovery space shuttle flight over Washington, D.C. for CANstruction
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey recently released the largest ever 3-D map of the sky with some 540,000 galaxies
NASA’s Curiosity rover traveled 154 million miles and will now begin the search for the ingredients of life on the red planet
Is This NASA’s Earliest Timelapse?
One timelapse enthusiast edited footage from Projects Mercury and Gemini to create a stunning look at early space travel
Adorable Cheetah Cubs Make Their Debut at the National Zoo
The cheetah cubs will be named after the fastest male and female American Olympic athletes in the 100-meter dash at the London Olympics.
Rare Baby Crocs Born at the National Zoo
More on the crocs at Smithsonian.com: http://j.mp/SWhbxZ The two Cuban crocodiles are the first for the zoo since 1988.
NASA’s Inflatable Spacecraft Heat Shield
Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield to protect a spacecraft when entering a planet’s atmosphere or returning to Earth
Take a look at the outrageous automobiles of the San Francisco ArtCar Festival
The Endangered Orchids of North America
The North American Orchid Conservation Center is working to ensure the survival of some of the most unique plants in the world
Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
Team members share the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars
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