Through means of sensors e transmitters, an animal detection system aims to feed message boards for drivers hundreds of meters before wild specimen can cross the road.

Study contradicts the view that worker bees are forcibly castrated by the queen among the 600-odd species of stingless bees widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

Areas in Latin America suitable for growing coffee face predicted declines of 73-88 percent by 2050. But bee species diversity may save the day, even if many species in cool highland regions are lost as the climate warms.

New, hairy-clawed porcelain crab species discovered in the southern Caribbean.

An alteration impairing the expression of certain proteins might hide the genesis of part of brain dysfunctions observed in schizophrenia patients.

Juvenile male Golden-collared Manakins on extra testosterone cleaned up their display area before performing for females, according to research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama published in Animal Behavior. Female manakins got more aggressive when given testosterone.

The concentration of technology- and knowledge-intensive firms is, to the 21st-century view on economics, the main variable in the definition of public policies leading for wealth-generating clusters. According to international specialists who met in a symposium of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), by strength of its diversified economy and research funding structure, the Brazilian State of São Paulo meets the conditions of cross-bordering European clusters of entrepreneurship and innovation

Smithsonian scientists and collaborators including the Panama Canal Authority confirm that native tree species performed very well in field trials and would be preferable to teak in the poor soils of the Panama Canal watershed.