Sarah Grady was waiting tables and deciding what to do with her new anthropology degree when a restaurant customer told her about the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s Archaeology Lab. The rest, as they say, is history. Continue reading Volunteer Spotlight: Sarah Grady, Explorer of Past and Future Landscapes
From exposing the secret lives of mammals to protecting native orchid growth, citizen scientists strengthen Smithsonian conservation around the world. Continue reading Citizen scientists: You don’t have to have a doctorate to help heal the Earth
Nothing says summer on the Chesapeake Bay like crabs. The Environmental Research Center is looking for volunteers to do some serious crabbing–but you’ll probably want to forgo the drawn butter and Old Bay. Continue reading Citizen Scientists help tackle creepy threat to native crabs
Nothing says summer on the Chesapeake Bay like crabs. The Environmental Research Center is looking for volunteers to do some serious crabbing–but you’ll probably want to forgo the drawn butter and Old Bay. Continue reading Citizen Scientists help tackle creepy threat to native crabs
Adam Savage of Tested takes an in-depth look at the Mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Continue reading In-jokes and Easter eggs: Even aliens are comedians
We do our best work when efforts and ideas can flow across positions, titles, offices, and departments, when we value the work of every hand, when each person recognizes how their labor contributes to our larger mission. Continue reading The work of many hands
Ken Wang explains how Apollo 11 represents the best of the American spirit and why we need to revive that spirit to tackle to complex issues we face today. Continue reading Why space travel should still be a national priority
Bug smuggling and cuddle-bug baby red pandas made the news this week. Oh, and they love Donald Trump in the Netherlands. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week that was Sept. 1 – Sept 7
September 10, 1993. The renovated Insect Zoo opens at Natural History, bigger and buggier than ever. Continue reading Today in Smithsonian History: September 10, 1993
