It’s a little early to write about this upcoming holiday, but it’s one that I wasn’t aware of until it recently came across my radar via various professional networks. And it’s a holiday that celebrates the heritage and value of our coasts not for its seafood but for the people who work on the water. […]
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A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn’t yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
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New form of mpox found in Congo’s biggest outbreak
The disease may spread more easily spread among people but it seems to have a lower death rate, authorities said.
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Intertidal: Help collect important data by monitoring plankton
It’s May, and while that doesn’t necessarily mean that we are through spring’s fickle weather, which often vacillates between blustery rain and calm sunshine, it feels like a hopeful and nurturing month. Maybe that’s due to the origins of its name. May is named for the Roman goddess Maia, the Earth goddess. She is also […]
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The Recycle Bin: Topsham climate action planning
Recently, bigger ocean storms have knocked out hundreds of Maine lobster docks, intense rainfalls have kept the Androscoggin River well above flood level for many days in April and power was out for 10 hours to several days in parts of the Midcoast. Increasingly intense weather events are becoming the new norm, so many Maine […]
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Daniel Dennett, atheist philosopher guided by science, dies at 82
A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Access great reads 24/7
Recently, I was powering up every digital device in my house so I could download my Kindle books to several devices. A storm was coming, and I just couldn’t be without access to books to read. I started wondering about digital access to books in 2024. I suspected it had expanded since last I checked, […]
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Maine researchers, students are sorting through muck and slugs to study baby scallops
The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries hopes the work will strengthen what could become a complicated relationship between fishermen and farmers who depend on the same juvenile scallops to do their work.
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Anne Innis Dagg, pioneering giraffe researcher, dies at 91
The Canadian zoologist conducted trailblazing studies of wild giraffes and was featured in the 2018 documentary ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.’
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UMaine team prepares to document total eclipse from the moon’s point of view
A video feed from a balloon drifting 90,000 feet above Maine will show the shadow pass over Earth as if seeing the eclipse from the vantage point of the moon.