Sounds of Science
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…
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Microphysics and Macrohistory
Jesse Ausubel participated in “Looking Back as We Move Forward,” a conference in honor of historian of science Jed Z. Buchwald, at the California Institute of Technology 26-27 April 2019,…
Single locus mtDNA resolves freshwater snail species
Freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis and flukes, trematode parasites that infect approximately 10% of world’s human population. Freshwater snails are also indicator species for water quality. Snail identification…
Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms
“Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms” have now been published in hard copy. The abstracts are available on-line. For reprints, please contact us at phe@rockefeller.edu….
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…
New genus and species of Bryozoan named for Jesse Ausubel
Dating back to the Ordovician period about 450 million years ago, Bryozoa are small aquatic invertebrates with exoskeletons that typically sieve food particles out of the water with a crown…
Labelling specimens and species with standardized DNA sequences
…rate, a world key for the 5500 known Odonates would run to 15,000 pages. The recondite language that is required to describe morphologic detail in this and other keys makes…
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:…