Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.
Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey
Description: [view in English][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9793,size=200,left]William y Lucile Mann juntos construyeron una carrera en las ciencias naturales. Combinaron los conocimientos científicos y contactos institucionales de él con el talento como escritora y publicista de ella.De niño, William Mann se escapó de su casa, en Helena, Montana, con la ilusión de trabajar en el circo, pero