The expanded and remodeled Mathias Laboratory, named in honor of U.S. Senator Charles "Mac" Mathias Jr. (1922-2010) (R-Md.) will have a low environmental impact on all fronts, from where it gets its power to where it gets its materials. [...more]
These opportunistic plants quickly fill-in the gap taking advantage of the increased light coming through the tree canopy and the fresh soil at the fallen tree’s turned-up roots. [...more]
Candy Feller, senior ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., will lead an effort to track more than 100 miles of Florida mangrove forests that are encroaching on salt marshes to the north. [...more]
A new bacterial genome sequence could help researchers solve a mystery as to how microorganisms produce a highly toxic form of mercury. [...more]
To help regulators and engineers develop and test such treatment systems, and ultimately enforce these standards, a team of researchers developed a statistical model to see how to count small, scarce organisms in large volumes of water accurately. [...more]
A team of scientists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., is taking a closer look at how rising acidification of ocean water may be impacting estuaries and near shore environments on the Chesapeake Bay [...more]
In March, Smithsonian Channel will be putting some of the greatest female scientists under the microscope. Meet fascinating scientists whose passion to save the planet makes them today’s superheroes. Read illustrated stories about incredible young women and the moments that sparked their lifelong journey of scientific discovery here: Women in Science, Working Wonders, Sundays at 8 [...] [...more]
This user-friendly, portable, and extensive identification guide features large color illustrations of more than 900 species; the first range maps published to show the distribution of Panama's birds and concise text that describes field marks for identification, as well as habitat, behavior, and vocalizations. [...more]
This fossil represents a new genus and species of extinct aneuretopsychid, Jeholopsyche liaoningensis, recently described in a paper in the journal ZooKeys by Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Dong Ren and ChungKun Shih of the College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing. The aneuretopsychidae are a family of long-proboscid insects that lived in Asia from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. The paper documents the first formal record of fossil Aneuretopsychidae in China. The new fossils reveal previously unknown and detailed structure of the mouthparts, antennae, head, thorax, legs and abdomen of this distinctive insect lineage.
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