Scientific American SuperGrid

The Continental Supergrid is featured in the July 2006 issue of Scientific American: ENERGY A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy By Paul M. Grant, Chauncey Starr and Thomas J….

Nighttime Illumination

Concerned about ecological effects of nighttime illumination, we take note of an important research project on ‘Loss of the Night’ of Franz Hoelker and colleagues in Berlin:…

Science Saturday May 3 2014

Kate Stoeckle (Sushigate–How We Became DNA Detectives–You Can Too!) and Mark Stoeckle (Citizens Help Study Icky and Mysterious City Pest–Cockroaches) showcased their work on May 3 at Rockefeller’s first “Science…

David Thaler joins us more officially

…is now based at the Biozentrum – Center for Molecular Life Sciences in Basel, Switzerland. David now rejoins RU as a guest investigator with PHE, and mutual interests spanning evolution,…

CoML Marine Microbes

The Census of Marine Life announces discovery of a rare microbial biosphere. Jesse notes that a swallow of seawater might contain 1000 kinds of bacteria….

eDNA Seawater

On September 13, 2016 Jesse delivered a lecture on Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater as part of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov Institute…