The book interweaves research and data with personal stories from new parents.
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Intertidal: This time of year, tide pools showcase mini marine life
If you aren’t a scuba diver or a snorkeler, there are a lot of things that live under the water along Maine’s coast that we don’t usually get to see. Tide pooling is an exception to that — when the tide goes out, there’s an array of marine life revealed for seaside explorers to find. […]
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Tips for photographing our fabulous fall foliage
Look around; the leaves are changing. In another week or two, the Midcoast will be bursting with oranges, yellows and brilliant reds. These days, most of us carry a cell phone with a camera, which means when coming across a stunning example of fall colors, it’s possible to snap a picture on the run. Even […]
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Intertidal: Kicking off National Seafood Month with octopus
In Maine, the common octopus usually only grows to be a handful of inches across, while the giant Pacific octopus can reach nearly 12 feet in length.
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Nobel Prize goes to 3 chemists who snapped together molecules, a boon for medicine
The goal is ‘doing chemistry inside human patients to make sure that drugs go to the right place and stay away from the wrong place,’ says one of the Americans who shared the prize.
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Three physicists share Nobel Prize for work that could make computers super fast
Their work settles a debate about quantum mechanics between Albert Einstein and famed physicist Niels Bohr. It turns out Einstein was wrong.
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Maine Voices: Students think globally with help from Camden Conference
Through the nonprofit, I’ve discovered how to relate what I’ve learned in the Arctic to life in Maine in ways that are meaningful to the young people I teach.
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Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research that ties us to Neanderthals
This transfer of genes between hominin species affects how the immune system of modern humans reacts to infections, such as the coronavirus.
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The Recycle Bin: Maine forests and farms store carbon
Ninety percent of Maine is forested land, which makes us the state with the largest carbon-storage service in New England. One important strategy in reducing the effects of climate warming is to store carbon in soils, trees and perennial agricultural crops. Maine already stores about 60% of the carbon it emits in our young forests. […]
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Intertidal: Enjoy the transition to autumn with walks along Midcoast trails
I blame it on seasonal shifts, which is the topic of this column, but I wanted to provide an apology for the incorrect publishing of last week’s column. You may have noticed that it was about spring fish migration and that seemed a bit out of place in September. Perhaps it is appropriate, however, given […]