Feds say no to wolffish endangered listing
The National Marine Fisheries Service has determined that the ever so ugly Atlantic wolffish is not in danger of extinction and should not be placed...
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Boston lab explores children’s complex lessons in reading faces
Pity the Boston car salesman who negotiated across the table from Charles A. Nelson III, a Harvard neuroscience professor who runs the nation’s top laboratory studying how people learn to decode facial expressions.
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US government joins soaring use of contests to engage innovators (By Bina Venkataraman, Boston Globe)
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In dead Vineyard oaks, a warming warning
Ever since a vast tract of Martha’s Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad. Now scientists are calling it something else: a possible climate change lesson. (By Beth Daley, Boston Globe)
People are still evolving, heart study numbers say
Charles Darwin famously studied evolution in the Galapagos Islands. Now a team of scientists has chosen a decidedly less exotic locale to study the subject - Framingham. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)