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The earth is big, and so are the tectonic plates—it doesn’t seem possible that anything humans could do to the earth would have an effect on those plates
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A senior editor visited the Galapagos - here's what she saw
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Can cuteness save the Emperor penguin?
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The AP reported earlier this week that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is spewing a drug soup into the waters of a town near Hyderabad
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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?
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The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse
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Next month we celebrate an odd double anniversary—the 200th anniversaries of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
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Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence
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Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science
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Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it
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Did you hear? A western lowland gorilla named Mandara gave birth last Saturday at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Here at Smithsonian, we’re big fans of the Amazing Randi, not least because he’s a fan of the magazine (he told us so)
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A couple of weeks ago, fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, pulled up a 20-pound lobster
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Australians of European descent might be forgiven for thinking they could turn the continent into another Europe
There are 118 elements in the periodic table, from hydrogen to ununoctium
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