…Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 32:12125), researchers from Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research report on pooled bacterial samples collected at 550-1,710 meters…
In this week’s Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, CBOL Plant Working Group, which included 52 researchers from 25 institutions, announced agreement on a DNA barcode for land plants. The authors…
…at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2014 in San Francisco, USA.  Jesse Ausubel continues to advise the program and marvel at the abundance of methane and hydrogen….
…Grow and Eat. We continue to follow the achievements of farmers. Corn yields have gone insane. Average USA yields have continued the gradual climb to about 170 bushels/acre or 12…
Mark Stoeckle presented recent eDNA work assessing marine fish diversity and abundance at OneNOAA Science Seminar Series on August 26, 2020. The recorded presentation and lively discussion is available online…
…data release policies hammered out by the genomics community as a precedent. At a 1996 summit in Bermuda, leaders of the scientific community agreed on a groundbreaking set of principles…
…sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example, BBC radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht Gizmodo, USA The…
…opportunity than that between Sinclair’s projected maximum and averages over the entire USA. For 50 years the National Corn Growers Association has conducted a national contest, and in 2014 the…
Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural†peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…
Biofuels attract lots of money and political support in the USA, but they have lots of environmental and economic shortcomings. Captain Todd A. “Ike†Kiefer has written a comprehensive, penetrating…