Smithsonian anthropologist William Fitzhugh speaks about Edward Nelson’s 1877-1881 Western Alaskan Expedition
William Fitzhugh – Edward Nelson’s 1877-1881 Western Alaskan Expedition
Science Spotlight
-
-
Video: Space Shuttle Discovery circles Washington, D.C. before landing at Dulles Airport
The shuttle made its final flight on the back of a modified 747 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Virginia’s Dulles International Airport Tuesday, April 17. At 9:48 a.m. it flew over the airport at about 300 feet and then went around Washington, D.C., for about an hour and 15 minutes.
-
Top 10 gallery celebrates the Infrared Array Camera aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope
For the last 1,000 days the Infrared Array Camera, aboard NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood.
-
Development will reduce carbon stored in forests, Smithsonian & Harvard scientists predict
When most people look at a forest, they see walking trails, deer yards, or firewood for next winter. But scientists at the Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian take note of changes imperceptible to the naked...
-
Smithsonian astronomers and colleagues to photograph black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Smithsonian astronomers have joined their colleagues from other observatories in a daring new venture: to photograph the giant black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
-
5 rabbit realities
In celebration of the annual spring appearance of the Easter bunny on Sunday, April 8, Smithsonian Science offers these five facts from the book “Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide”
-
Invasive pythons in Florida now stealing bird eggs straight from the nest
The snakes are not only eating the area’s birds, but also the birds’ eggs straight from the nest.
-
Smithsonian anthropologist JoAllyn Archambault speaks about the outstanding research of 19th-century anthropologist James Mooney
