This invited post is authored by Chris Mah, a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher. Chris is one of the world’s leading experts…
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Climate Change vs. The Holiday Season
A US Senator posting on Buzzfeed? AND using animated GIFs to talk about Science? This one’s too good to ignore, but the facts are definitely…
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From our hydrothermal vent to yours, Happy Holidays to all! …and just to get you in the spirit…
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Long has the state of educational funding been dismal. Classrooms suffer. Teachers become bitter. Students are left numb and disinterested. This deficit has hit the…
View More Bio Logik: Science Outreach Remixed and Served Fresh.Little known fact – Santa is actually a pirate
This vampire’s surprising secret
Vampire squid–with cloudy blue eyes, a blood red body, and barbed arms– may be the deep sea’s most frightening creature, but according to a new…
View More This vampire’s surprising secretClimate science and poetry collide in the IPCC Haiku
Haven’t had time to read all 2000+ pages of the 2013 IPCC report? Neither have I! But don’t worry, physical oceanographer Greg Johnson has taken…
View More Climate science and poetry collide in the IPCC HaikuEssential Marine Readings
Everyone is always asking the DSN crew what are favorite books are. Well just in time for the holidays we are unleashing The Essential DSNL…
View More Essential Marine ReadingsComb jellies, not sponges, may be your most distant animal relative
For over a hundred years scientists have assumed that sponges (yep, the animal that inspired your kitchen sponge), are our most distant animal relative. And why…
View More Comb jellies, not sponges, may be your most distant animal relativeThe Ocean’s Gelantinous Christmas Tinsel
The above photo is of Apolemia lanosa a type of siphonophore belonging to phylum Cnidaria that also includes corals and jellies. It’s basically the ocean’s…
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