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• Some ants still trying to get crop domestication right

  2 September 2016

  

   

• Mystery solved? Ants Protect Young From Infection By Cocooning Them in Fungus

  30 August 2016

  

   

• Recent Connection Between North and South America Reaffirmed

  19 August 2016

  

   

• Study: Managed beehives can discourage crop-raiding elephants

  20 July 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian celebrates Panama Canal expansion!

  28 June 2016

  

   

• Next Engineering Revolution Is Hiding in Museum Collections

  10 June 2016

  

   

• Discovery: Rising CO2 depletes pollen’s nutritional potency, bees suffer

  1 June 2016

  

   

• From Rochester to Polynesia, a simple cube unveils Earth’s dazzling biological diversity

  26 May 2016

  

   

• Deer Discovery: Invasive Plants Get Boost from too Many Deer

  6 May 2016

  

   

• Blood-thirsty jungle horse-flies catch big chill from Smithsonian entomologist

  16 March 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian Botanist Discovers New Ground-Flowering Plant in Panama

  22 January 2016

  

   

• Trees employ similar strategies to outcompete their neighbors

  7 January 2016

  

   

• Agustín Stahl: Scientist Who Introduced the “Arbol de Navidad” (Christmas Tree) to Puerto Rico

  23 December 2015

  

   

• New report enables creation of carbon credits for restored wetlands

  2 December 2015

  

   

• Major El Nino Perfect opportunity for Global Change Research

  29 October 2015

  

   

• Climbing plants disturb carbon storage in tropical forests

  15 October 2015