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May 26, 2016
Weeds of the Sea: The Explosion of the Cephalopods
What do global warming, overfishing and ocean acidification add up to? Apparently a new dominant species of the underworld – the cephalopod. In a study published this week in Current Biology, a group of scientists from the University of Adelaide have found, since the 1950’s, the populations of octopus, squid, and cuttlefish have not just … Read more
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May 17, 2016
Zika Eradication and the Citizen Scientist
There’s a new wave of data collection being employed in the United States that’s cheap, easy and civic-minded: crowdsourcing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching an ambitious effort to eradicate Zika virus from its population starting with capturing data from across the country. Not by spending great sums of money to pay researchers in … Read more
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May 10, 2016
Back From the Brink: Should Science Halt Extinction?
As we grapple daily with the consequences of climate change and exploding human populations, other animal species we share the planet with are about to go extinct. But, as reported last week in the journal Nature, science may be able to step in and halt the inexorable decline of critically endangered animals. Right now, there … Read more