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Digitized, Searchable Archives Help Revive ‘Sleeping’ Languages
Myaamia tribe member Dahra Sirois works on a language and craft project during the Eewansaapita summer camp in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (Photo by Andrew J. Strack, courtesy Myaamia Center Archive) Like...
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Trapped in Amber: Ancient fossils reveal remarkable stability of Caribbean...
Some of the fossils in this study are exceptionally well-preserved, such as the specimen shown here. With micro-CT scanning, the skeleton can be reconstructed in 3D, revealing complete skeletons, fully...
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Jamestown skeletons identified as colony leaders
A team of scientists used multiple lines of evidence, including archaeology, skeletal analyses, chemical testing, 3-D technology and genealogical research, to single out the names of the four men who...
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Old bombs, chemical weapons now home for deep-sea starfish
A brisingid starfish living on submerged munitions. Close examination of round galls found on a number of the starfish, as seen here, were determined to be caused by parasites and not by the residue of...
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Nano Bible donated to Smithsonian
The Bible is only 0.5 square millimeters – much smaller than the head of a pin. The text was etched with a focused beam of energetic gallium ions. (Photos courtesy Technion-Israel Institute of...
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Disk Gaps Don’t Always Signal Planets
This artist’s concept illustrates a solar system that is a much younger version of our own. Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are thought to be the breeding grounds of planets,...
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Monitoring methane? Now there is a better way to measure
Dairy cows in Mount Joy, Penn. Biologists from the Smithsonian, University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new and better way to estimate the methane output of large...
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Smithsonian Libraries’ rare texts include early superstars of science
An illustration from Bernhard von Breydenbach’s “Journey to the Holy Land,” 1483-84 (detail) Tucked away on the lower levels of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and National Museum...
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Smithsonian lab receives GreenGov Presidential Award
The Mathias Laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. Throughout 2015 the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Md., has marked its 50th...
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book: Airport towers as abstract art
Cover of “Art of the Airport Tower,” by Carolyn Russo (Smithsonian Books) ( Image by Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum) “My recurring theme is the transformation of the ordinary…,” explains...
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Smithsonian-Cornell Partnership produces First Domestic Puppies by In Vitro...
Jennifer Nagashima, SCBI doctoral fellow (right) and Nucharin Songsasen, SCBI scientist, hold two of the healthy domestic puppies born through in vitro fertilization. (Photo by Jeffery MacMillan) After...
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Smithsonian Scientists Trace Anthropocene Roots to Early Human Activity
A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Musuem of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East...
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From Wind-Up Dolls to Handheld Computers, Toys Follow Evolution of Tech
Got a kid who’s expecting the new Xbox One under the Christmas tree, or a teenager who absolutely must have the latest phablet? You’re not alone—kids have been clamoring for the latest and greatest...
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X-ray fluorescence shines new light on arthritis in dogs
Flickr photo by Thomas Hawk Osteoarthritis in dogs is a serious and painful malady that effects many breeds. Recently Janine Brown, a biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in...
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Kickstarter funding: Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit
This spacesuit was worn by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first man on the moon on July 20, 1969. (Image by Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum)...
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