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I was surprised to read in the Washington Post yesterday that oak trees from northern Virginia to Nova Scotia failed to produce any acorns this year
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The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
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Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears
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This is a sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and it looks like a leaf because it has acquired chloroplasts from its algal prey and stored them in its gut lining
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In preparation for tomorrow’s big day, I offer you a selection of articles on the theme of turkey science:How did the turkey in my oven get so big?
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One of the first Smithsonian articles I worked on was last year’s Guerrillas in Their Midst, about the endangered mountain gorillas of Rwanda and Congo
A new blog keeps in line with our obsessions
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The famed astronomer wasn’t always so well known
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This week’s Picture of the Week is the Earth as seen from the Moon, circa 1966.Thinking ahead, NASA sent five missions up to photograph the moon
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With the announcement that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, it seems natural to ask when we will finally see live mammoths
Spark!Lab at the National Museum of American History, which reopens on Friday after extensive renovations
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