A fiery explosion on the surface of the Moon, visible to the naked eye, recently surprised NASA astronomers monitoring the Moon for meteorite strikes. Occurring March 17 it was the biggest explosion in the 8-year...
There is little doubt that human activity is affecting planet Earth, but just how much? And is it all negative? Rick Potts is the director of the Human Origins Program and curator of anthropology at...
All bear species except for one live in either temperate or tropical woodlands. Only the polar bear is a stranger to the forest, living and foraging instead across vast expanses of barren polar ice. But...
Going for the gut will soon become standard protocol for scientists working to unravel the complex living web of interactions between plants and animals on Earth a recent groundbreaking Smithsonian study predicts. In the study...
Marc Fries, a research associate in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, answers some basic questions about meteorites.
The remora’s sucker disc is “one of the most remarkable and most highly modified skeletal structures among vertebrates.”
Despite many laws to protect it, a new survey reveals wild ginseng in Maryland is on the decline.
A rising spike in West Nile virus is taking health officials across the country by surprise as this year more than 2,600 people in 45 states and the District of Columbia, have been stricken with severe symptoms of this mosquito-transmitted disease.
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