Can cuteness save the Emperor penguin?
Smithsonian's Laura Helmuth vacationed in the Galapagos Islands and returned with even more respect for Charles Darwin
Jake Page explores the evolution and enigmatic ways of the most popular pet in America -- the house cat
A professor explains how new technology drastically altered the modern American family unit
The AP reported earlier this week that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is spewing a drug soup into the waters of a town near Hyderabad
On this blog, several of the staff of Smithsonian magazine have been debating who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin
We asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin? T.A. Frail took up the fight for Lincoln, and Laura Helmuth argued for Darwin
Recently, someone here at Smithsonian asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin?
The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse
Next month we celebrate an odd double anniversary—the 200th anniversaries of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence
Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin and nearly outscooped Darwin’s The Origin of Species
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