In the late 1860’s, a French entomologist, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, living in Medford, Massachusetts, imported gypsy moths (Lymantria dispar) which he hoped to hybridize with domesticated Asian silkworms (Bombyx mori),…
Starksia is a genus of tiny (most less than 2 cm) blennoid fishes found in rocky inshore areas and coral reefs along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and…
Pacific Fishing magazine has published the report on mislabeled fish identified by DNA barcodes by star students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, whom PHE had the pleasure of assisting. For…
The Energy Xchange, an independent producer of podcasts, recorded a 1-hour conversation on energy of Scott W. Tinker – director, Bureau of Economic Geology,University of Texas at Austin; Steven E….
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
Arthur L. Singer, Jr., allows us the honor to post his 90-page “East to Forget, and So Hard to Remember,” covering his career at MIT, the Carnegie and Sloan Foundations…
For its 2021 Annual Review, the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation presented an hour-long seminar in which Jesse Ausubel speaks briefly on experimentation, Melissa Flagg on intellectual courage, and Dan Patt…
In 2004, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) (Banks et al. 45th supplement) recognized most of the smaller-bodied forms of Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) as a separate species, Cackling Goose (B….
We post a Schematic of an eDNA metabarcoding protocol for marine fish. We recently showed that current laboratory protocols optimize sensitivity and reproducibility, especially for more abundant fish populations (ICES…
…differentiation.” The researchers chose 3 pairs of populations, subspecies, and species in 3 orders of birds that live in Alaska or Russia. The study design had two aims, first, do…