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We're often taught that a hypothesis is the first step in the scientific method. In actuality, what comes first is an observation - a rare commodity for…

Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters.Wikipedia defines lab lit as…

According to a deal announced last week, Massachusetts will receive nearly half of the federal disaster relief funds coming to the Northeast groundfish…

While aboard the Charles W. Morgan, Heather Goldstone caught a whiff of olden times: the odor of whale that is STILL detectable in an original oak barrel.…

Bad news about New England’s cod fishery is nothing new, but it’s taken on a new urgency in the past few years. In 2012, fishery managers slashed the…

The traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokule'a, was built to prove a point: that Polynesian voyagers sailing traditional canoes and using traditional…

Thanks to Galileo, it's common knowledge that the Earth orbits the sun. What's not as commonly known is that the sun - and our entire solar system - is…

For as long as there has been life on earth, there have been new species arising and others disappearing. A handful of times, the rate of disappearances…

Carl Safina is a marine conservationist and professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island who has been an advocate for the ocean for many years.…

When Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, she kick-started the field of atomic physics and inspired two other female physicists whose work gave rise to…