By Mike McRae Spend a few minutes watching the graceful dance of an octopus on the prowl and you’ll quickly appreciate their talent for making their arms flow like a living liquid. It’s one thing to marvel at their flexibility. To really get a grip on their motor skills, researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory
Biomolecular condensates “are changing our fundamental understanding of how cells work.” They were first observed and described in the MBL Physiology course. By Viviane Callier Imagine packing all the people in the world into the Great Salt Lake in Utah — all of us jammed shoulder to shoulder, yet also charging past one another at
Note: Brad Gemmell, Jack Costello and Sean Colin collaborate in the MBL Whitman Center to study locomotion in marine animals. Most of this jellyfish video was taken at MBL. By Kenneth Chang Locomotion through the seas can be arduous. Water is more viscous than air, and so underwater creatures must overcome strong frictional resistance as
Jessica Mark Welch is an Associate Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. This is her story from the field as told to Claire Maldarelli. Bacteria run the world, and even though they’re all around us and seemingly crucial to the function of every single biological ecosystem, we still know little about them.
This podcast is a two-part conversation with marine biologist Roger Hanlon and TBA21–Academy’s Markus Reymann around the possible connexions between art and science that can be made through octopus tentacles. Their words dance with Octo-Durga, the “post big-bang underwater cephalopod dancer from the depths of one of Jupiter’s moons, from Europa’s oceans” created by Eduardo
By Christine Lynch Across from St. Joseph’s Chapel on Millfield Street in Woods Hole, the Mary Garden sits on Eel Pond, with its view of the village laboratories on Water Street across the way with the sea beyond. Just entering through the wooden gate of this garden brings a serenity helpful for weathering the stress
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet. In a surprising twist, in April 2017 scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt
The nitrogen levels in Great Pond are being monitored by the US Geological Survey, the Marine Biological Laboratory and the UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology. By Brad Cole Construction of a sewer system to serve the areas of Teaticket and Acapesket is projected for 2026. “The town has put up money for
There’s been a lot going on in 2020, so nobody can be blamed for missing a few things. But amid a tumultuous year in which many pivoted to COVID-19 research, University of Chicago scholars and scientists have also been hard at work continuing to understand the planet and the universe we live in, to improve
MBL scientist Jessica Mark Welch and Ira Flatow of “Science Friday” talked earlier this year about the billions of bacteria that live on the human tongue; the segment re-aired on Dec. 18. Listen here…. Source: Future Of Climate Change, Tongue Microbiome. Dec 18, 2020, Part 1 | Science Friday | WNYC Studios