Jesse Ausubel

Leonardo’s Art Still Carries a Biological Record of Its History

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York Surface DNA from artworks reveals biological patterns Findings offer clues, not conclusions: Research continues ondefinitive genetic identification of

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Search for Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA narrows as researchers confirm six living relatives share a family Y chromosome

Leonardo DNA Project, New York / Florence Ancient Da Vinci family tomb: excavated remains undergo analysis VINCI, Italy — For over five centuries, Leonardo Da

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The material revolution: How USA’s commodity appetite evolved from 1900 to present

The Rockefeller University, Programme for the Human Environment, New York City A new study documents the dramatic change in America’s material diet from 1900 to

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Do fish bay at the moon? Can songs unmask mystery fish? Eavesdropping scientists create ocean soundscapes

The Rockefeller University, Programme for the Human Environment, New York Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have

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Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, “GLUBS,” will help monitor marine life

The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, International Quiet Ocean Experiment By assembling and expanding first-ever global audio collection of aquatic life, scientists aim

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A Clean Ocean by 2030: United Nations Panel of Experts Charts the Most Direct Course

Clean Ocean Int’l Expert Group, New York Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among

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Scientists offer new insights on computer power growth, past and future

The Rockefeller University, Programme for Human Environment Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shed new light on “Moore’s Law” — perhaps the world’s most famous

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Leonardo da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, finds 14 living male descendants

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, The Rockefeller University, New York Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo’s DNA The surprising results of a decade-long

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As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound ignorance’

The Rockefeller University Unknown direction and pace of change in microbial — including viral — biodiversity may have deep consequences for all life on Earth

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Emerging listening network will study seas uniquely quieted by COVID

The Rockefeller University, NY Amid COVID pause in marine activities, growing network aims to monitor soundscapes, assess changes in behavior of marine life; More than

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Biology in art: Genetic detectives ID microbes slowly ruining humanity’s treasures

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York DNA science may help restore, preserve historic works, unmask counterfeits; The trait elite baseball hitters share with Leonardo

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DNA surprises surfacing in the Atlantic: Species far from their usual southern homes

The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, New York DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of marine life predicted a decade ago;

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In the news: 30 clients’ most noted news releases of the decade

Terry Collins & Associates, Toronto, December 31, 2019   Many of the ~200 science news releases written and distributed for 30 clients in the 2010s

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Imperfect diamonds paved road to historic Deep Earth discoveries

Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Materials trapped inside diamonds offer clues to life’s origin; suggest oceans’ worth of water hidden in Deep Earth

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Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth

Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and

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Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes

Deep Carbon Observatory  Washington DC Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren’t conventional ‘fossil fuels’ as popularly

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Found Nemo, Dory with DNA in the seas; Experts prescribe way ahead for new ocean science

The Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, New York Organizers of 1st National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA call for official US Government marine eDNA

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Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans

Deep Carbon Observatory   Washington DC Deep Carbon Observatory collaborators, exploring the ‘Galapagos of the deep,’ add to what’s known, unknown, and unknowable about Earth’s most

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Marine species quickly revealed by new ‘Go Fish’ tool, highlights potential of emerging eDNA science

Rockefeller University, New York, Program for the Human Environment Experts convene for 1st US National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA, a far-reaching, potent complement to

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DNA reveals evolution’s secrets; humans, like most species, show tiny genetic difference

Rockefeller University, New York Far from special: Humanity’s tiny DNA differences are ‘average’ in animal kingdom Paper offers new insights into evolution; as with humans,

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Scientists track fish migration using DNA in water samples

Rockefeller University, Program for the Human Environment, NY Naked DNA in water tells if fish have arrived Scientists demonstrate harmless, economical new way to log

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Catalog of 208 human-caused minerals bolsters argument to declare ‘Anthropocene Epoch’

Carnegie Science – Deep Carbon Observatory, Washington DC Humans: The greatest contributor to diversity of minerals since oxygen; Officially recognized minerals, formed by nature: More than 5,000;

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