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Josie Garthwaite

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U.S. Military Preps for Gene Drives Run Amok (Scientific American)

November 19, 2016 by Josie Garthwaite

DARPA researchers are developing responses for accidental or malicious “genetic spills”

Categories: Environment, Science, Scientific American, Technology • Tags: biotech, CRISPR, DARPA, DNA, synthetic biology, Technology

Beyond GMOs: The Rise of Synthetic Biology (The Atlantic, Climate Confidential)

September 25, 2015 by Josie Garthwaite

Genetically modified organisms today usually have just one engineered gene. Scientists now want to create organisms with whole new gene clusters.

Categories: Business, Environment, Science, Technology, The Atlantic • Tags: agriculture, biotech, Climate Change, CRISPR, food, GMOs, iGEM, MIT, synthetic biology

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What We Know About the Earliest History of Chocolate (Smithsonian)

February 13, 2015 by Josie Garthwaite

The tools and flavors have changed, but the work of roasting and grinding fermented cacao beans, and mixing them with a few simple ingredients to create a divine food, is a practice that goes back to early Mesoamerican civilizations.

Categories: Lifestyle, Science, Smithsonian • Tags: cacao, California, chocolate, food, history, Mesoamerica, San Francisco, Startups

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Cracking the Climate Color Code (Discover Magazine)

July 1, 2014 by Josie Garthwaite

An ecologist records nature’s color signals to understand the feedback between plants and a changing climate.

Categories: Discover Magazine, Science • Tags: Andrew Richardson, carbon sinks, Climate Change, ecology, fall colors, forestry, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, PhenoCam, phenology, photosynthesis

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Too Much Wind Energy? Save It in Volcanic Rock Reservoirs (National Geographic)

July 2, 2013 by Josie Garthwaite

To manage a surplus of intermittent power in the Pacific Northwest, scientists propose underground compressed air storage in porous volcanic rock.

Categories: Energy, National Geographic, Science, Technology

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Oil Potential and Animal Habitat in the Monterey Shale (National Geographic)

May 29, 2013 by Josie Garthwaite

Much of the petroleum produced in California over the past 150 years has sprung from a jumble of rocks known as the Monterey shale formation. To some, the costs of using advanced technologies to unlock oil that remains tightly bound in the Monterey appear too high. Landscapes atop the shale include habitats for protected species such as the San Joaquin Kit fox, the California Condor, and blunt-nosed leopard lizard.

Categories: Environment, National Geographic, Science

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Capturing Climate Change Digitally (The New York Times)

December 28, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

By analyzing thousands of photographs of a forest canopy less than 40 miles outside London, researchers were able to estimate carbon uptake over a two-year period based on the leaves’ hues.

Categories: Environment, Science, Technology, The New York Times

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Reimagining the Coral Market (The New York Times)

December 18, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

A new study suggests that the coral trade for aquariums is shifting toward farming rather than harvesting, which might help preserve some coral species.

Categories: Environment, Science, The New York Times

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Learning to Live With Urban Coyotes (The New York Times)

October 25, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

Increasingly, residents of urban and suburban areas are having firsthand experience with coyotes in their own yards, parks and neighborhoods.

Categories: Environment, Science, The New York Times

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