A few hours from Seattle at a location that can only be reached by boat, marine scientists at University of Washington's Friday Harbor lab are breeding and studying endangered sunflower sea stars following a massive die-off over the past decade. "There's some indication that disease might have been related to some warmer waters around that time," said Friday Harbor Marine …
Exercise physiologist Jesse Hickerson, left, and nurse Deborah Kuntz keep track of David Brookfield’s vitals while performing a stress test at the McConnell Heart Health Center in Columbus, Ohio. The article included a chart to support his argument that “by 75, creativity, originality and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us.” Boy, I guess I’m …
In an island laboratory off the coast of Washington State, scientists are bringing back to life a gorgeously ferocious predator that suddenly perished amid a climate change-driven marine heat wave seven years ago. With the species functionally extinct in California, seaweed-eating purple urchins have proliferated, devouring bull kelp forests along a 200 mile stretch of the north coast where the …
