How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…between 5 and 30 million. Of the named species, the biggest group by far, numbering around 1 million, are insects, centipedes and millipedes. Other big groups include plants, vertebrates —…

Methane hydrates report from UNEP et al.

…Frozen Heat: UNEP Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates. Volume 1. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal. For both volumes: ISBN: 978-92-807-3319-8 Volumes 1 & 2 should be available online soon….

News Flashes

…profiles, form special interest groups, and more.”The more includes webinars and links to upcoming relevant conferences. The core of the site is the chance to connect with like-minded barcoding professionals,…

Tea time for DNA

…including weeds like annual bluegrass (Poa annua) and white goosefoot (Chenopodium album) and herbal plants like chamomile (Matricaria recutita). Matching DNA ingredients to listed ingredients was sometimes challenging–we observe that…

Loglet Lab software version 4

The behavior of a dynamic system, be it biological or socio-technical, frequently resembles a series of logistic wavelets, or “loglets.” Loglet analysis involves the decomposition of growth and diffusion patterns…

2020 declared Year of Quiet Ocean – News from International Quiet Ocean Experiment

…Presse Lull in shipping activity gives scientists chance to listen to sounds of the ocean https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lull-shipping-activity-gives-scientists-042755282.html German: Internationales Forscherteam untersucht Tierlaute im Ozean während Corona-Krise  https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/internationales-forscherteam-untersucht-tierlaute-ozean-214115152.html French: Un réseau mondial

Barcoding Birds Paper

Our paper “Identification of Birds Through DNA Barcodes” is published in PLoS Biology and is featured by Science and Nature online. Links can be found on our Barcode of Life…