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How can researchers solve the issue of reproducibility?

At SLAS 2017, the annual international conference and exhibition from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, the topic of reproducibility was center stage. Panelists in a special session discussed the challenges and solutions that both industry and academia...

source: By Suzanne Mason
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Science, sustainability, and the science of sustainability and the failures of economists

The original dream of three separate but equal pillars of sustainability has become a fallacy; the triple bottom line is dead. The essence of sustainability in practice is to act with increased resilience in mind, and in...

source: IEAM Blog
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Millions of seahorses wind up dead on the black market for this senseless reason

Behind the scenes at the California Academy of Sciences, baby potbellied seahorses roamed a tall, bubbling tank. They used their prehensile tails to cling to seagrass and to one another. The babies were small and slim as a finger,...

source: Oceana
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Not just for cows anymore: New cottonseed is safe for people to eat

You probably don't think of cotton as food. There's a good reason for that. Farmers grow it mostly for the fluffy white fibers that turn into T-shirts or sheets. Cotton plants do produce seeds, but those seeds are poisonous, at least...

source: National Public Radio
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New data tool can help scientists use limited funds to protect the greatest number of endangered species

A large majority of Americans strongly support the goal of preventing the extinction of endangered wildlife and plants. Today, over 1,600 U.S. species are listed under the Endangered Species Act, and more are added...

source: The Conversation
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World's biggest plant shrinks as hungry deer move in

A vast aspen grove that is renowned as one of the world's biggest living organisms is shrinking as a result of human activity and browsing deer. One aspen tree can sprout thousands of genetically identical trunks to form a single, sprawling clone known as a "forest of one...

source: Nature
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwide. Of 39 salt brands...

source: National Geographic
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