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Taking a Closer Look: Glass Collections at the Smithsonian

woman’s robes (munisak) - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift of Guido Goldman, left: S2004.96; right: S2005.17.

The Power of Color: Using Synthetic Dyes as a Dating Tool for Museum Textiles

56 million-year-old fossil pollen grains collected from Wyoming and photographed on the NMNH’s scanning electron microscope.

Tiny Fossils, Big Insight; How We Can Use Fossil Pollen to Understand Earth’s Climate History

Paul Lester Wiener and an unidentified advisor for the U.S. Pavilion murals

Reversing the Erasure of Native Contributions to Muralism

The author lowers a net into a topside ballast water tank to sample marine plankton and zooplankton

Port to Port: Ships Carry More than Just Our Cargo

The author and his colleagues at their “office”.

Unraveling the “Hidden” Secrets Below One of the Most Biodiverse Regions on Earth

The Yonahlossee salamander is a woodland species from the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States (Brian Gratwicke)

Back from the Dead: Amphibians Continue the Fight Against Extinction

Omaca, the sample eating Tapir (tried, but did not succeed). Jokes aside, a remarkable animal to be around while doing science! Photo credit: Benjamin Blonder.

Help, a Tapir is Trying to Eat My Leaves! A Month of Plant Ecophysiology in Yasuní

the biodiversity of the Pantanal is outstanding. There is a great abundant of birds and a large quantity of mammals as shown in the big picture above. In this picture alone we can see at least four species of birds and a female Marsh deer. (W. Tomas)

Cattle Ranching and Sustainability in the Wetlands of Pantanal, Brazil

Dumas digging up a nest of Ectatomma ruidum. Photo credit: Jorge Alemán, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Digging Up Knowledge from Tropical Forest Floors

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