Successful automation often involves machines that carry out tasks differently than persons. For example, a Coulter counter (developed by Wallace H. Coulter, an American engineer), analyzes blood cells by electrical…
The video for the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life earned a 15,000 euro Pirelli International Award for science communication. Thanks to Avenue A/RazorFish and all other members of the…
Recent essays based on the “Peak Stuff” paper by Chris Goodall highlight our work on Dematerialization: In Le Monde in France in French by Audrey Garric, “Have we attained a…
The first barcode data release paper has just been published by PLoS One. These data comply with the BARCODE data standard and the paper includes a table that links data…
In August 2010 PLoS ONE, researchers from University of Queensland, Georgetown University, and National Aquarium look at feasibility of genotyping cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) by sampling blow, the exhalations…
PHE student Samara Davis will present her work with Mark Stoeckle on eDNA detection of threatened salamanders at Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Annual Meeting https://northeastparc.org, to be…
Energy author Robert Bryce publishes a piece in The American magazine that refers heavily to our work on Decarbonization….
Our new cool-looking PHE website is up and running, thanks especially to Jason Yung and Mark Stoeckle. A brand new publications database ties everything together, thanks to diligence of Smriti…
The DNAHouse project alerted us to the value of barcoding a New York City cockroach…and now Mark Stoeckle announces the initiation of the National Cockroach Project. Jeanne Garbarino posts a…
Jesse Ausubel’s 55-minute talk (plus 30 minutes of Q&A), Nature Rebounds, to the Long Now Foundation on 13 January 2015 at the San Francisco Jazz Center is on-line. Thanks to…