There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there Dustin Partridge of ...

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 ...