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• Gliding ants steer with hind legs as they fly backwards, scientists learn

  30 November 2010

  

   

• Potential biofuel pest, the switchgrass moth, under renewed scrutiny of entomologists

  29 November 2010

  

   

• Plant diversity in tropical forests increased during ancient global warming event

  11 November 2010

  

   

• Fossil reveals 48-million year history of zombie ants

  10 November 2010

  

   

• Center for Tropical Forest Science receives grant to study diversity of tree communities

  8 November 2010

  

   

• Remarkable ethnobotany collections of Edward Palmer highlighted in new Smithsonian Website

  4 November 2010

  

   

• Study backs restoring green buffers along streams to reduce Chesapeake Bay pollution

  27 October 2010

  

   

• DNA sequencing reveals simple vegetables in ancient Roman medicines

  21 October 2010

  

   

• A noisy reef is a healthy reef

  19 October 2010

  

   

• Study reveals hazards of the high-wire life for bromeliads

  10 September 2010

  

   

• Video: Smithsonian horticulturalist Janet Draper discusses the pollination of the pelican flower

  7 September 2010

   

• Exhibition: Endangered plants here and around the world

  6 August 2010

  

   

• Tropical tree study shows interactions with neighbors plays an important role in tree survival

  8 July 2010

  

   

• Scientists find excess nitrogen favors plants that respond poorly to rising CO2

  30 June 2010

  

   

• Slide Show: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is 100!

  22 June 2010

  

   

• Transmitters unveil long-distance movements of orchid bees

  27 May 2010