JoGayle Howard, National Zoological Park pioneer in reproductive biology, dies
For more than three decades JoGayle Howard dedicated her life and work to reproducing endangered species.
Science Spotlight
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Gulf of Mexico survey will benchmark diversity of ocean floor
Funded by BP through the Florida Institute of Oceanography, the scientists will make the 10-day trip aboard the institute’s 115-foot research vessel. The divers, scientists and photographers will document hard bottoms of Florida, from the Keys to the Panhandle, to gain a better understanding of these sponge- and coral-dominated communities
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Roland Kays, curator of mammals at the New York State Museum, discusses a new Smithsonian Website for sharing camera-trap images of wild animals
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New archaeological evidence reveals California’s Channel Islands as North America’s earliest seafaring economy
Evidence for a diversified sea-based economy among North American inhabitants dating from 12,200 to 11,400 years ago is emerging from three sites on California’s Channel Islands.
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Tiny creatures collected 100 years ago confirm accelerating carbon uptake in Antarctic Ocean
Tiny Antarctic marine creatures collected 100 years ago by British Royal Navy explorer Robert Falcon Scott are giving scientists new clues about polar environmental change.
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Mystery of the quiet Sun solved
The Sun has been in the news a lot lately because it’s beginning to send out more flares and solar storms. Its recent turmoil is particularly newsworthy because the Sun was very quiet for an unusually long time. New computer simulations imply that the Sun’s long quiet spell resulted from changing flows of hot plasma within it.
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Tyrannosaurus rex more hyena than lion
But a new census of all dinosaur skeletons unearthed over a large area of Eastern Montana shows that Tyrannosaurus was too numerous to have subsisted solely on the dinosaurs it tracked and killed with its scythe-like teeth.
