Geneticist Jasper Rine and his colleagues launched the Dog Genome Initiative to elucidate both canine genes and behavior
Most Americans believe science and technology make their lives better, two out of five are "very interested" in them, but not many know how they work
NASM's new "How Things Fly" gallery is hands-on to the max! At 50 visitor-operated displays, you can see and feel the basic principles of flight in action
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New York's renowned veterinary hospital takes on almost anything, from a constricted boa to a mite-infested mouse to an anemic iguana
If it is tall, wide and thick enough, it might qualify for listing on the National Register of Big Trees--but first someone has to find it
It took four years, a shipwright and help from the British to create the blue whale model installed in the National Museum of Natural History
That's the advice researchers in Venezuela give volunteers who help them find and collect specimens of the world's biggest boa
In which it is amply demonstrated that the sound bite, long a pariah of pundits and pooh-bahs, is really a help meet to man
The experts believe Mount Rainier will give plenty of notice before it erupts again--the problem is that it can kill in other ways
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Don't be misled by their dainty appearance. These ornaments of summer are aggressive predators, amazing fliers and bizarre suitors
At a 2,600-acre research site near Chesapeake Bay, Smithsonian scientists are answering basic questions about how ecosystems work
The innovative dwellings designed by Seattle architect James Cutler are rooted in the wooded contours of the land they complement
When the FBI moved in across the street 60 years ago, Smithsonian anthropologists began a tradition of helping to solve crimes
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The Mpala Research Centre offers a pristine environment for collaborative study on how humans and wildlife can coexist in the future
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After studying (and eating) smaller squid for years, the Smithsonian's cephalopod man is now ready to face the biggest calamari of all
We all have a need to classify plants and animals, which is what the National Museum of Natural History does on a grand scale
Found everywhere from beaches to 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas, scorpions kill more people than any other animal except snakes and bees
When a drop of rain carries a particle of dirt off the land and into the sea, there are repercussions from deep within Earth to the nearer reaches of space
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