Party life
Margaret S. Collins, the first black woman in the United States to win a doctorate, has overcome racism and sexism to become a field biologist and termites expert, reported the editor of life sciences, Susan Milius, in “Termites pioneer. “”
“I had the honor of knowing (Margaret S. Collins) in the early 1990s, when I was hired by the USDA in the National Museum of Natural History,” wrote the research entomologist, Dr. Mr. Alma Solis. “I have a lot of stories of her as a scientist in the museum, but one of the stories that I have never heard of is her ability to capture the attention and imagination of scientists during games. If there were a group of people around someone, you knew it was Margaret to read Palms! She was very good at reading people and very funny.
Dive deeper
A marine cyanobacterium nicknamed “Chonkus” stores a lot of carbon and quickly flows into the liquid. These features are promising for the carbon session in the ocean in order to fight against climate change, the earth and the climate writer Carolyn Gramling reported “in”Mutant cyanobacterium has an appetite for carbon. “”
The Reader Deborah Strod has asked how long it takes carbon kidnapped by this bacteria to return to the atmosphere.
The carbon cycle scale in the ocean can vary depending on many factors, including the depth of the water. Generally, “if you flow from organic carbon deep enough, it should remain separated from the atmosphere for thousands of years,” said microbiologist Max Schubert, formerly of the Wyss Institute of Harvard University. “There remains an open scientific question to what extent the biomass flows so deeply” from the surface of the ocean, he says.
Scientists are trying to measure this through models of ocean iron fertilization, the practice of fertilization of the ocean surface to increase the growth of phytoplankton. These organizations capture carbon throughout their lives and end up flowing in the seabed to their death.
Although the fertilization of ocean iron can help eliminate atmospheric carbon, it presents certain risks. The process can deprive precious nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, of the environment, potentially disturbing certain oceanic ecosystems. “We were delighted to see that (Chonkus) accumulated a large quantity of carbon -rich polymers”, explains Shubert, which can allow him to sink carbon “while stealing fewer other nutrients along the way”.
On the overhaul
Scientists“The January 2025 issue unveiled a new look, with more pages and visual elements, a puzzle on the theme of science and our complete and usual in -depth scientific coverage.
Some readers shared their first impressions.
“I love it,” wrote Mark Waltz. “I subscribed for most of my adult life, and it’s great to see your efforts to provide new scientists in what I am sure continues to be a difficult new ecosystem.”
Joel Sanet wrote: “I was a fan of the puzzles of words and mathematics most of my life … I urge you to continue to publish them.” Acrostes, a type of puzzle of words that reveals a coded message, “would give even more opportunities to incorporate science into clues and could lead to a quote from a famous scientist or in a scientific treat,” added Sanet.