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Marine microbes support the entire ocean food chain, provide the oxygen we breathe, and may even help soften the blow of climate change. They're also…

Long before crowd-sourcing and citizen science were buzzwords, volunteers for Buzzards Bay Coalition were monitoring water quality along the estuary's…

For thousands of years, native Americans lived on Cape Cod, fishing, farming, and managing the forests in a sustainable way. Then, along came European…

It's the holy grail of commercial fishing: catch just the right amount of just the right size of just the right species, without damage to the physical…

We all have stories of pets or other animals doing things that seem like they could only be the result of thought or emotion. Yet, the idea of animal…

Kevin Harrington recently made headlines for finding the brightest galaxies known to astronomy – galaxies so luminous they were thought impossible. The…

Researchers at Columbia University reported this week that they’ve found transmissible leukemia in mussels, cockles, and golden carpet shell clams,…

It’s not unusual for whales to make headlines around here, but the past couple of months have brought a stream of bad news. In May, a dead minke whale…

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We tend to think of emotions as diametrically opposed to rational thought and intellectual activity. But that's not always the case.When's the last time…