Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

UBC researchers have identified the world’s largest marine virus--an unusually complex ‘mimi-like virus’ that infects an ecologically important and widespread planktonic predator. Cafeteria ...

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

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Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored by giant kelp, researchers have found. Dense forests of giant kelp ...

Recent cases in Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, and other localities have been reported in wild birds since the start of the year. The city statement adds that the Centers for Disease ...

Since starting the Stroke Awareness Foundation in 2002, the organization has worked with Santa Clara County and local ...

Apr. 21, 2025 — What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.