…small creatures that inhabit leaf litter. I look forward to learning more about whether these spiders are exceptions to the rule that deep mtDNA divergences signal species boundaries in animals….
The New York Times created an interactive game “name the scientist†in which Jesse Ausubel is the wrong answer to the 4th question. Richard Dawkins is the right answer. Still…
The Breakthrough Institute has posted Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Cars and Civilization” in a linear, scrollable layout. This version may be easier to read on some devices, though less attractive to…
PHE’s acoustic wizard, Perrin Meyer, and Meyer Sound created a scientific experience at ?#?BurningMan2015?. Bay Area artist Jon Sarriugarte and sound designer Kyrsten Mate created a rocket launch experience “Project…
Nature has assembled a collection of papers originating under the auspices of the just-concluded ten-year Deep Carbon Observatory project, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. An interview with two of the…
As of 28 january 2008, there are 341,825 barcode records from 35,798 species in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) www.barcodinglife.org . What sectors of biodiversity have been analyzed so…
We post the article The Evolution of Transport, which appeared in this months issue of the magazine, The Industrial Physicist….
PHE-sponsored “Sushi-gate†investigation is featured in April 2009 Scripps Oceanographic Institute Magazine. The article, which describes work done by FISHBOL researchers Phil Hastings and Ron Burton, quotes PHE’s Mark Stoeckle…
Michael Ojovan, now at Imperial College (London), and Russian colleagues have published an excellent compact description of self-sinking capsules for disposal of hazardous waste and probing the deep Earth. See…
Plants challenge DNA barcoding. It has been difficult to identify candidate barcode regions that amplify readily and also distinguish among closely-related species. In 7 February 2008 PNAS (open access) researchers…