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The brig, called Industry, was hunting for sperm whales when it went down in a storm in 1836. It’s a unique find — in part because of the multiracial crew, said Monica Allen, director of public affairs for NOAA Research, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Dave Garner of Orleans loves maps and he has an extensive collection of them. Every once in a while, he’s willing to give one up, and that will happen at…
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Nearly 60 years ago, the Russians were the first to put a satellite into space. They were the ones to beat in the space race. But the collapse of the…
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Today we discuss the opening of the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center and their efforts to digitize the cultural heritage of the fishing community. Host…
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Despite super computers and complex algorithms, climate change modeling is far from perfect. What’s needed is more data, and climate scientists are…
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For thousands of years, native Americans lived on Cape Cod, fishing, farming, and managing the forests in a sustainable way. Then, along came European…
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Earnest Everett Just is considered the first African-American marine biologist. Born in Charleston, SC, in 1883, he went on to study at Dartmouth College…
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A new book provides a glimpse of what life was like for the sailors, rather than scientists, aboard an ocean-going research ship in the mid-twentieth…
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It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the heart of…
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Louis Agassiz was a popular celebrity unmatched by any American scientist since. But can we love a man who justified racism with pseudoscience?In all…