As Bigelow Laboratory’s Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series approaches its 25th year, NASA awarded the program funding to continue regular cruises on the R/V Bowditch. Here’s what to expect.
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A frozen human foot found on Mount Everest revives a century-old mystery
Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn ‘Sandy’ Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.
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Maine lab explores whether stressed-out algae could help replace plastics
Algae appear to communicate when “stressed.” What are they saying?
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Bigelow lab receives $7 million for algae research, business development
The Boothbay lab will use the National Science Foundation grant to build the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator in a bid to unlock more ways macroalgae and its microscopic counterpart can be used and ultimately marketed.
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The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)
Researchers revealed that the long-mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of the world’s most famous prehistoric monument came from faraway Scotland.
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MDI Bio Lab gets $19 million to boost Maine’s biomedical research, workforce
The federal grant will fund the renewal of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program, a collaboration between 17 educational and research institutions, for another 5 years.
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Launch of Maine research satellite delayed once again
Built by Maine college students, MESAT-1 will collect climate data for Maine students studying urban heat islands, phytoplankton and harmful algae blooms.
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Maine’s first satellite is ready for orbit, but launch is delayed
MESAT-1, one of 8 nano-satellites set to hitch a ride aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, will collect climate data for experiments designed by Falmouth, Fryeburg and Saco students.
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Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to ‘normal hearing levels’ in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.
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Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to ‘normal hearing levels’ in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.