The Encyclopedia of Life goes live
…live! Reuters offers a good sample story about the debut of this promising macroscope. Please visit the EOL and provide feedback to the EOL about the site design and operation….
…live! Reuters offers a good sample story about the debut of this promising macroscope. Please visit the EOL and provide feedback to the EOL about the site design and operation….
The Technology-Entertainment-Design (TED) conference that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life and connect it with hi-techsters prepared a 4-minute, 13 MB video [download it here] that both reports on progress…
…for improvements in aircraft safety design. Forensic ornithology laboratories (see for example, Laboratory for Feather Remains Identification in Tel Aviv) have relied on microscopic examination of feather barbules. Identification of…
…and all the challenges involved. Initial chapters cover habitats and fauna, survey and sampling design, and mapping. The heart of the book describes and analyses a panoply of approaches spanning…
…quantification, field design, laboratory protocols) –Adding internal standard to metabarcoding PCRs quantifies eDNA (converts relative sequence reads to absolute eDNA copies) –Current marine fish metabarcoding protocols ready for wider use…
PHE welcomes Donald Jenkins, former manager of advanced propulsion at Rocketdyne, to work with us part-time from his home in Southern California on design issues for zero emission power plants.
The book is based on a conference held at The Rockefeller University and sponsored by the Program for the Human Environment, Electric Power Research Institute, and National Academy of Engineering. It has been published by…
…subsidies. Moreover, the G-8 is the only high-profile international forum — other than the more inclusive International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and U.N. — that engages Russia, the world’s…
…to municipal landfills (U.S. EPA 1994). Humans, however, moderate these environmental impacts, good and bad alike. Projections of the effect of humans harvesting timber on forests in the future must…
…future. We’ll get to the reasons for his optimism in a moment. But first, why is he so pessimistic about changing human behavior? “Human nature hasn’t changed much since biblical…