Science / Video
This area of Chatham albatross nesting platforms is called “The Cave.” The nests, which are composed entirely of guano and the bodies of dead chicks, may be hundreds of years …
New technologies helped marine archaeologists recover the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine
Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paul Raffaele explores gorilla tourism, raising gorillas in captivity and the future of the Congo mountain gorillas
Learn about this often misunderstood creature
A snake attacks a snail with a clockwise-spiraling shell
A crow named Icarus uses a short tool to extract a long tool, which he then uses to fish out a piece of meat.
Take a virtual tour of the Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, Georgia
Captive Asian vultures tend to a newborn chick
Smithsonian’s Own Crime Scene Investigator
Forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley discusses the skeletal specimens in a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum (Meredith Bragg). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-scientist-who-reads-bones-40315000/
Watch a video illustration of what scientists can learn from footprints
From soil to soup (Smithsonian.com). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/passion-for-tomatoes.html
Gene Therapy Experts Look Ahead in Treating Blindness
Two of the preeminent researchers of gene therapy hope to improve their patients’ sight in an experimental operation (Stephen Voss/WPN)
Greenland Video: The Daily Life in Niaqornat
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/In-Search-of-the-Mysterious-Narwhal.html Staff writer Abigail Tucker relates her experiences reporting from the small Arctic village of narwhal hunters.
Finding Evolution at the Natural History Museum
Discover evidence of natural selection and evolution at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum (Meredith Bragg)
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