Woods Hole News

Reports of a fire aboard the ferry Martha's Vineyard on her crossing to Woods Hole Friday evening were incorrect, Steamship Authority general manager Wayne Lamson said today.

Mayor Jon Mitchell wants to capitalize on the city's natural affinity for the marine sciences by creating a collaborative institution that would bring together key research entities and commercial organizations from across the region, he said Friday.

Steve Heaslip/Cape Cod Times Falmouth Police Lt. Jeff Smith points out evacuation locations on a map as Mass.

Imagine being able to mathematically describe the process by which an embryo develops into an animal, assigning numbers to its every function, and dysfunction.

Now that the last of the kids has graduated, we're going to spend a few days at another island.

Imagine being able to mathematically describe the process by which an embryo develops into an animal, assigning numbers to its every function, and dysfunction.

Maybe it was as I was riding in the back seat of Mom's wood-paneled Ford Station wagon with my old pal Matt Palanza from Davisville to Mike's Ice Cream on Davis Straits, where the Citizen's Bank is now, anxiously anticipating some of the huge clumps of colorful treats in the bubble gum ice cream.

Seniors from Falcon School District 49 rummaged through their local grasslands this month, collecting insects.

Every wonder what was lurking at the depths of the ocean? Visit the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole to find out, located in an area well known for its international marine research.The institution offers free walking tours behind the scenes of the center in July and August, Monday through Friday at 10:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 ... (more)

Melting Arctic permafrost could put even more methane - a potent greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere than previously thought, with worrying implications for the pace of global warming.

Eleven science journalists have been awarded prestigiousA Logan Science Journalism Fellowships A from theA Marine Biological Laboratory A , an internationally known biomedical and environmental research and educational center located in Woods Hole.

Business owners, researchers, regional planners, tourism professionals and a host of others converged in Falmouth Monday for the start of the SmarterCape Summit - a two-day event tackling that question.

The talk of the town in Edgartown last week was squid - an invasion of squid and squidders.

Inc., one of the region's larger shipyards , will start construction in July of two large oceanographic vessels that will keep workers busy through 2015.

The Town Council set a more sustainable financial course by cutting employee retirement benefits that had threatened to drive the town into deficit spending as of 2014.