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American Society for Gravitational and Space Research 2019 Annual Meeting (Denver)
In November 2019, through the collaboration of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), Bio...
The Ecological Context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
In this episode of BioScience Talks, we welcome previous guest Dan Salkeld of Colorado State University back to the show. He is joined by CSU colleague and 2016 coauth...
In Their Own Words: Susan Stafford
This episode is the third in our new oral history series, In Their Own Words. These pieces chronicle the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to th...
Fireflies Face Global Threats
Worldwide declines in insect populations have sparked considerable concern. To date, however, significant research gaps exist, and many insect threats remain under-inv...
In Their Own Words: Diana Wall
This episode is the third in our new oral history series, In Their Own Words. These pieces chronicle the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to th...
Impact Series: Tympanogen, Gels, and Helping Children Heal
Each year, tens of thousands of patients undergo invasive surgery to repair perforated eardrums. The surgery, called tympanoplasty, is time consuming, costly, and diff...
Room for Complexity? The Many Players in the Coffee Agroecosystem
Agricultural areas are often considered distinct from local ecosystems, and in many cases, such an assessment rings true. Single-crop farmlands, reliant on the libera...
Better Science through Peer Review
Peer review lies at the heart of the grant selection process and, by extension, the scientific enterprise itself. To inform their decisions, funders rely on grant revi...
In Their Own Words: Kent Holsinger
This episode is the second in our new oral history series, In Their Own Words. These pieces chronicle the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to t...
In Their Own Words: Rita Colwell
This episode marks the first in a new oral history series from BioScience, entitled In Their Own Words. These pieces chronicle the stories of scientists who have made...
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting Report
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member society, fosters research, education, public awareness...
Impact Series: Solving Medical Mysteries with Aperiomics
The BioScience Talks Impact Series focuses on the path from newly gained scientific knowledge to real-world effects, addressing questions such as How does a new vacci...
Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in Wild Populations
By altering the heritability of certain traits, gene drive technologies have the potential to spread desired genes through wild populations. In practice, this could le...
Bridging the Gap between Behavioral Science and Animal Ethics
In this episode of BioScience Talks, Christine Webb of Harvard University joins us to talk about the potential for widening the involvement of scientists who study an...
Readying the National Park Service for Change
In this episode of BioScience Talks, Mark Schwartz, of the University of California, Davis, joins us to talk about the National Park Service, and in particular, the ch...
Better Governance for Better Resource Management
In this episode of BioScience Talks, Derek R. Armitage of the University of Waterloo, Jennifer J. Silver of the University of Guelph, and Daniel K. Okamoto of Florida ...
Advancing Opportunities for Convergence at NSF BIO
Joanne S. Tornow was selected as assistant director for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) in February 2019, following almost ...
The Makings of an Invasion: The Slender False Brome
Invasive species are a hot topic, both in scientific circles and among the public at large. Still, the mechanics of invasions are often opaque, and a broader understan...
Building a Better Understanding of "Resilience"
The concept of resilience is an important one in conservation science and resource management. However, the term itself is often poorly understood, or understood diffe...
ASGSR Annual Meeting - Maryland
At the beginning of November 2018, through the collaboration of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Res...
Biodiversity and the Extended Specimen Network
Natural history specimens housed in museums, herbaria, and other research collections are revolutionizing science—largely as a result of growing efforts to digitize s...
Inequality and the Human Right to Food
The importance of human access to adequate food could not be more clear; however, many questions surround the provision of food among and within countries. What obliga...
Half-Earth Preservation with Natura 2000
In recent years, calls to preserve greater swaths of the Earth's land- and seascapes have grown. In particular, numerous conservationists have called for the protecti...
Chromatin Looping: Seeing DNA in 3D
New tools are making it easier to understand not only our genetic code but also the ways that the code's three-dimensional structure contributes to gene expression. ...
Saving Species with Better Monitoring
To conserve species, managers need reliable estimates of their population trends. Samples are gathered over time, but the length of the sampling period is often estab...
Using the Plant Microbiome to Restore Native Grasslands
An appreciation of the crucial role of microbiomes, from those aboard the International Space Station to those living in the human gut, is quickly gaining traction am...
Tracking Aedes aegypti across the Ages
Mosquito-borne diseases have plagued humanity for centuries, and a prolific offender has been Aedes aegypti, commonly known as the "yellow fever mosquito." Despite th...
Scientists Warn that Proposed US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity, Conservation
Amidst increased tensions over the US–Mexico border, a multinational group of over 2500 scientists have endorsed an article cautioning that a hardened barrier may prod...
Big Data is Synergized by Team and Open Science
For some time, "big data" has loomed large as a source of challenges and opportunities for science, but as yet, guidance on how to manage the data deluge has been wa...
Synbio Ethics: What the Researchers Think
As synthetic biology emerges into the public sphere, so too does a discussion about the ethical and regulatory questions posed by the field. Because synthetic biology...
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