Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to help create frozen repository of sperm and embryonic cells for Great Barrier Reef corals
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Methods for calculating species extinction rates overestimate extinction, says Smithsonian scientist
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Hormone tests show Mei Xiang, the National Zoo’s female giant panda, may be pregnant
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The small whorled pogonia
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National Museum of Natural History’s coral collection used in Caribbean agricultural and sewage pollution study
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Mars polar dunes
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Recent eruptions in the Crab Nebula mystify astronomers
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Changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate, scientists find in new National Zoo study
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Study reveals environmental impact of American Indian farms centuries before Europeans arrived in North America
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New Mathias Lab at Environmental Research Center will have low environmental impact
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Saturn’s moon Titan
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Stunning high-resolution NASA images available online for public exhibits
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Falling trees help invasive wineberry move into deciduous forests in North America
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First rainforests arose when plants solved their plumbing problem
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Leafsnap, a new mobile app that identifies plants by leaf shape, is launched by Smithsonian and collaborators
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Astronomers unveil portrait of newly discovered “super-exotic super-Earth”
