Elektron Splicer

Our 1996 paper Elektron introduced the notion of an appliance, “The Splicer”, a multipurpose minigenerator at the level of the individual consumer that could produce heat, electricity, and cold on…

Barcode – Frequency Matrix

PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle teamed up with Royal Ontario Museum ornithologist Kevin Kerr on a just published PLoS ONE paper “Frequency matrix approach demonstrates high sequence quality in avian BARCODEs…

We added or revised

We added or revised many technical documents for the CyberCampus project, which is about to go into beta testing….

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….