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PublishedJanuary 5, 2025
Maine businesses say H-1B visas are critical to filling labor gaps
Trump allies are split over the program that brings skilled foreign workers to labs, hospitals, universities and tech companies in Maine.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2024
Gulf of Maine warming research resumes with NASA support
As Bigelow Laboratory’s Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series approaches its 25th year, NASA awarded the program funding to continue regular cruises on the R/V Bowditch. Here’s what to expect.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
Maine lab explores whether stressed-out algae could help replace plastics
Algae appear to communicate when “stressed.” What are they saying?
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Bigelow lab receives $7 million for algae research, business development
The Boothbay lab will use the National Science Foundation grant to build the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator in a bid to unlock more ways macroalgae and its microscopic counterpart can be used and ultimately marketed.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2024
MDI Bio Lab gets $19 million to boost Maine’s biomedical research, workforce
The federal grant will fund the renewal of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program, a collaboration between 17 educational and research institutions, for another 5 years.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2024
Launch of Maine research satellite delayed once again
Built by Maine college students, MESAT-1 will collect climate data for Maine students studying urban heat islands, phytoplankton and harmful algae blooms.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
Maine’s first satellite is ready for orbit, but launch is delayed
MESAT-1, one of 8 nano-satellites set to hitch a ride aboard Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket, will collect climate data for experiments designed by Falmouth, Fryeburg and Saco students.
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PublishedMay 2, 2024
A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn't yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
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PublishedMay 2, 2024
New form of mpox found in Congo’s biggest outbreak
The disease may spread more easily spread among people but it seems to have a lower death rate, authorities said.
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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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