A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...
From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...
The Colorado Museum of Natural History started out in 1900 with the Edwin Carter Collection of taxidermied birds and mammals, plus some butterflies, moths and crystallized gold, in a modest display in ...