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PublishedApril 14, 2024
Maine researchers, students are sorting through muck and slugs to study baby scallops
The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries hopes the work will strengthen what could become a complicated relationship between fishermen and farmers who depend on the same juvenile scallops to do their work.
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PublishedApril 7, 2024
UMaine team prepares to document total eclipse from the moon’s point of view
A video feed from a balloon drifting 90,000 feet above Maine will show the shadow pass over Earth as if seeing the eclipse from the vantage point of the moon.
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PublishedApril 1, 2024
NASA satellite could help identify best places to grow oysters, scallops in Gulf of Maine
Two University of Maine researchers are involved with an effort to log the most detailed data on record about the color and health of the ocean. The findings could have a range of impacts in Maine.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2024
Opinion: Leave Maine’s science curriculum as it is
Although well-intentioned, a move to teach genocide in middle school science classes is ill advised.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2023
This simple structure may be oldest example of early humans building with wood
A pair of crossed logs in Zambia are nearly half a million years old and provide a rare look at how ancient human relatives were working with wood and changing their environments.
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PublishedJune 28, 2023
Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe
Scientists say there could be more, or bigger, black hole mergers happening out in space than we thought – or point to other sources of gravitational waves that could challenge our understanding of the universe.
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PublishedJune 8, 2023
$30 million project will expand footprint, capacity of Bigelow research center in East Boothbay
The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences says it will break ground this fall on a 25,000-square-foot building to accommodate a growing staff and add new capabilities for teaching and research.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2023
How do forest lizards survive life in the city? They morph.
U.S. scientists in Puerto Rico say one species has sprouted special scales to better cling to smooth surfaces like walls and windows and grown larger limbs to sprint across open areas.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2022
Book review: ‘Mother Brain’ delves into the science of how our brains are rewired by parenthood
The book interweaves research and data with personal stories from new parents.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2022
Nobel Prize goes to 3 chemists who snapped together molecules, a boon for medicine
The goal is 'doing chemistry inside human patients to make sure that drugs go to the right place and stay away from the wrong place,' says one of the Americans who shared the prize.
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