With funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, researchers at Reveo, Inc. and the University of Washington are collaborating on developing a grapefruit-sized sequencer. It uses electronic and photonic…
The Census of Marine Life issued a press release 4 May on a cruise to look at sea bugs deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle….
Samara Davis’ poster on “Detection of Threatened Pool-Breeding Amphibians with eDNA Analysis” for the Northeast Partners in Reptile and Amphibian Conservation conference won top prize for undergraduate presentation—nice recognition for…
A 5 Nov 2022 Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins cites JH Ausubel. Renewable and nuclear heresies . Int J Nucl Governance, Econ Ecol 1 (3): 229–243, 2007 and…
Lifewatch has named Jesse Ausubel’s ‘terrible claw’ lobster as one of the ten astounding species of the last decade (2007-2017). Hooray for Dinochelus ausubeli! Thanks to the colleagues who made…
Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by U. of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp has just been published. The book provides an engaging, balanced, and perceptive…
DNA-based species descriptions could enable a catalog of life on Earth. Without some sort of automated approach, I believe this goal is unattainable. Insects are a good place to start…
The French newspaper, Liberation, assembled a slide show of photos of plankton from the Bermuda triangle cruise of the Census of Marine Life by superb photographer and scientist Russell Hopcroft….
On August 24th Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Russ Roberts on EconTalk, a weekly economics podcast. The hour-long interview, Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of Nature, can be heard here….
PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of ‘More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources?and What Happens Next’ by Andrew McAfee in…