Tag: Biology

What Lies Beneath Arctic Ice?

by | 5.19.2013 at 3:38am | 1 Comment
Arctic Algae

On Thursday we lowered a camera into an ice borehole to get a look at the underside of the ice. In the following video, you can clearly see the algae living in the bottom of the ice due to their pigments, which they use to harvest light.

Scientists Discover New Species of Monkey

by | 9.21.2012 at 2:58pm | 1 Comment
Portrait of Lesula - Photo by Terese Hart

In a gigantic and remote rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a team of scientists have discovered a new species of Old World monkey known as the “Lesula.”

Katherine Pollard: What Makes Us Human?

by | 10.22.2009 at 9:56am
human_genome_video

For the past six years Katherine Pollard has been working with the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium comparing the genes of chimps and humans in order to more fully understand how the human genome has evolved. Using the software she created to study genomic data, Pollard was able to identify the areas of the human [...]