DNA helps save sharks
…shark’s fins and tossing it back into the water. Highly prized for use in the delicacy shark fin soup, shark fins support a very lucrative market. Although the U.S. Shark…
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Finish for trains and start for maglevs?
…to emerge. Help sometimes comes from unexpected places. Sailing ships had trouble getting through the Suez canal and thus lost a crucial market. What might be the Suez canal for…
Reviews of The Seasons
Galatee’s The Seasons, on which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, earns good reviews. Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals New York Times ‘Seasons’ takes a…
Passing of Dr. Robert M. White
…who had the privilege of working with him.” The Washington Post ran a good remembrance. The New York Times also runs an obituary: Robert M. White, Meteorologist Who Revolutionized Weather…
DNA barcoding re-tested in Madagascar butterflies
…PSAT in 10th grade, then various SAT subject tests, AP tests, and the SAT or ACT achievement test (sometimes taken two or more times). Fortunately for students and their parents,…
Barcode stats reveal progress, challenges, opportunities
As Dirk Steinke’s recent blog post demonstrated, since the seminal 2003 Proc Royal Soc London B Biol Sci paper by Hebert, Cywinska, Ball, and DeWaard, barcoders around the world have…
The Seasons 2-minute teaser
A 2-minute trailer for the new Jacques Perrin/Galatee film, The Seasons, shares great footage from the film, which opens 27 January in France, and soon after elsewhere. Jesse has served…
High school students to explore wilds of New York City with DNA, win prizes
…Project (UBP) is a science competition spanning the five boroughs of New York City made possible by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Just as a unique pattern of…
Vast microbial genetic diversity found in oceans, stimulating new informatics tools
…more complete genomes into which the unassembled fragments can be placed. Second, new analytic tools. A new genomics and informatics group based at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information…
Bees conduct floristic survey
…a single run. A total of 3,671 and 2,191 sequences represented at least 3 times were obtained from Pyrenean and mixed wild flower honey, respectively, which were matched to 22…