Sarah Zielinski

Sarah Zielinski

 

Sarah Zielinski is an award-winning science writer and editor. She is a contributing writer in science for Smithsonian.com and blogs at Wild Things, which appears on Science News.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Picture of the Week—Hawaiian Honeyeaters

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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

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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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What Did You Do in College? These Students Discovered a Planet

That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet

Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below

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Picture of the Week--Diatoms or Modern Art?

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Primatologist’s Prison Sentence Commuted

Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property

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The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo

In 1904, several Pygmies were brought to live in the anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair

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The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo

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