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In 1971, Jon Kabat-Zinn finished his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria, at M.I.T. Then, he took what might be considered a left…

What do you call a group of older women advocating for land conservation? Great Old Broads for Wilderness, of course. No joke. Although humor - along with…

Emily Callahan was working at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 when she noticed something strange. The workers said they couldn’t wait to get back…

Today is the first day of COP22, the twenty second annual meeting of international climate change negotiators. This year’s conference is like none of the…

Sea level rise is typically mentioned in the context of erosion, coastal flooding, storm damage at the coasts. All of those are issues, to be sure. But…

One challenge astronauts face as they prepare for a mission to Mars is that they haven’t got a thing to wear.For example, astronaut Andrzej Stewart had to…

Most scientists walk a well-worn path to their careers – high school leads to college, then to graduate school. Rob Phillips skipped college. Now he’s…

Welcome to the first of what we hope will become a regular feature here on Living Lab. We’re calling it From the Director’s Chair, and it’s a chance to…

Poet Len Germinara is resident naturalist and education coordinator at the Nantucket Field Station, and co-host of Spoken Word Nantucket. He teaches…

What do you do when your ship is stuck in sea ice, devoid of coffee and toilet paper? Make art of course! The aptly named Rowan Frost and Peter Kimball…