Robert Bryce on electricity
The lively mind and pen of Robert Bryce have authored the new book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. We were happy to talk with Robert…
The lively mind and pen of Robert Bryce have authored the new book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. We were happy to talk with Robert…
John LaCava’s Sounds of Science project continues making good music mixing traditional instruments with laboratory instruments and machines. New coverage of the project is in the lower part of this…
Measuring Ambient Ocean Sound During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An expanded nonmilitary hydrophone network provides new opportunities to understand the variability and trends of ocean sound and the effects of sound…
…can be expected that denser geographic and taxonomic sampling may result in the discovery of new clusters, and perhaps reduce their divergence from each other, but they are unlikely to…
Bloomberg View reporter Justin Fox publishes an excellent piece “We might be near peak environmental impact” that reports on our Nature Rebounds essay and the new Breakthrough Institute’s “Nature Unbound:…
…genus Helobdella leeches from Austrialia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hawaii, and South America. The tale starts with a leech discovered in Germany in 1985, H. striata, re-named H. europaea in…
A paper based on Perrin’s master’s thesis was recently published in the new Chinese journal Communications in Computational Physics entitled “On the Naturally Induced Sources for Obstacle Scattering.”…
With his Sloan Foundation hat, Jesse has helped advance the work of the George Mason University Center for History and the New Media, which has released nifty open source software…
A new Nature paper by Barbara Block et al. of the top predators project of the Census of Marine Life, Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean, earns…
…seems probable many new species will be found lurking in museum drawers. Even in relatively bat-poor temperate regions there may be hidden diversity. It was not until 1997 that Europe’s…