U researchers map emperor penguin colonies by satellite
Emperor penguins may be icons of the Antarctic, but they aren’t immune to disturbances in their environment.
As climatic and other changes unfold, emperors may dwindle in numbers. But how to tell, when researchers can’t access all the emperor colonies dotting the Antarctic ice shelves and count heads every year?
Satellites, that’s how. (more…)
In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. (more…)
During his visit to the Yale campus as a Chubb Fellow, Indian movie actor Shah Rukh Khan said he has no higher objective in life than to make people happy. (more…)
UCLA’s Ian McLean, colleagues build most advanced instrument of its kind
A new scientific instrument, a “time machine” of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied before. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — Seed size is controlled by small RNA molecules inherited from a plant’s mother, a discovery from scientists at The University of Texas at Austin that has implications for agriculture and understanding plant evolution. (more…)
*Increase in ocean acidification led to collapse of oyster seed production at Oregon hatchery*
Marine researchers have definitively linked the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon to an increase in ocean acidification.
Larval growth at the hatchery declined to a level considered by the owners to be “non-economically viable.”
A study by the scientists found that increased seawater carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, resulting in more corrosive ocean water, inhibited the larval oysters from developing their shells and growing at a pace that would make commercial production cost-effective. (more…)
In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe – or at least the hot and fiery bits of it.
Lurking in the vast, chilly regions between stars, the unassuming molecule known as a triatomic hydrogen ion, or H3+, may hold secrets of the formation of the first stars after the Big Bang. (more…)
U launches groundbreaking new Ojibwe-English ‘talking’ dictionary
Eugene Stillday was born in Ponemah on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where he grew up speaking Ojibwe. That is, until his public school teachers forbade him from the practice and punished him and his classmates for speaking the only language they knew. (more…)
