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Discovering What Lies Below the Surface in the American Prairie

The story of the true ecological importance of this land however is less about what is seen, and more about what lies on and below the surface of this grassland area

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Which “Eraser” Reigns Supreme?

Unhealthy and dying seedlings in the forests of Panama.

My Life Coach, the Forest

Photo by Sarah Oakman

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

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

Scanned roots of a white ash (Fraxinus americana) from the Big Woods Plot, Michigan.

Connecting Roots to Leaves: Studying the Diversity of Plant Functions in a Temperate Forest

Plunguian’s watercolor of Einstein in his Princeton office (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Einstein’s “Relatively” Surprising Test Results

The author in her natural habitat.

What Fish Collections Reveal About Oceans of the Past

Dr. Suzan Murray, Program Director for the Smithsonian’s Global Health Program, reading her testimony at the House Science Subcommittee’s Coronaviruses: understanding the Spread of Infectious Diseases and Mobilizing Innovative Solutions hearing that occurred in March 2020.

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