Trump just said the army took over the airports during the Revolutionary War. That’s, um, 127 years before the airplane was invented.

Now online: our paper on a new multicolor FISH protocol for detecting up to 8 populations without color blending/unmixing. Very straightforward with white light lasers, but can partly be used with normal epis, too. Enjoy! frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have reached its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. Although the 2019 maximum was not a record low, it continued a trend of declining Arctic sea ice. Get more details from @NASA_ICE: go.nasa.gov/2FvVhCe

Does fishing the high seas make economic sense? Thank to satellite technology @GlobalFishWatch we have an answer. Watch my 12-minute TED talk here: go.ted.com/enricsala

Ready for an exciting workshop centered on metagenomics using @nanopore long reads at #albertsen_lab

The euks are finally having their say - published in @ISMEJournal! nature.com/articles/s41396-0…

The more you eat, the less you taste - at least true for mice: sciencenews.org/article/how-…

Two newly discovered giant viruses are the first viruses that can synthesize all 20 essential amino acids — an ability previously known to exist only in life. ow.ly/ldSb30iEkXd

73% of Atlantic fish contain microplastic - pretty scary!!! blog.frontiersin.org/2018/02…

"It’s quite possible that this is worth two Nobel Prizes." ow.ly/depV30iFQIV

Inhibiting an enzyme involved in production of Alzheimer’s protein globs also made old globs, or plaques, disappear in mouse brains. ow.ly/WnSm30ip3K1

On this day in 1977, a team of @WHOI researchers led by our founder Dr. Robert Ballard discovered hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands, changing our understanding of life in the deep sea--and on our planet.

"This really amplifies the field of ingestible sensors." ow.ly/5ynW30hEqsw

The feminization of sea turtle populations is more alarming that previously thought. ow.ly/5db230hFEnl