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Certain sea creatures can regrow lost limbs and organs, but does that mean humans might one day be able to do the same? The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Marine Biological Laboratory $802,500 in federal stimulus money partly to recruit and hire two specialists in regenerative biology to work on that question, MBL director Gary ...

This undated photo released by Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows a transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping forward on its many tentacles at about 2 cm per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth at 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

The supercomputer opened Friday at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization.

The university faces numerous obstacles in potentially seeking to acquire an unaccredited institution, Southern New England School of Law.

NASAa s fourth space-rated shuttle, OV-104 a oeAtlantis,a was named after the two-masted boat that served as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966.

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole was founded back in 1888, and still a whopping 121 years later the institution continues to thrive at the cutting-edge of biological research.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker will perform Sunday night as part of the Woods Hole Folk Music Society's concert series.

Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.

Posted By Newperson 3 hours, 34 minutes ago in Science & Technology With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.An orange tube fixed to a metal frame breaks the surface as the motorized winch stops groaning.

A new study by fisheries scientists in Woods Hole shows that about half of the 36 fish stocks they surveyed had shifted north or east toward cooler waters over the past 40 years, possibly in response to rising water temperatures due to global warming.

We agree: Pollution is not quaint. Therefore, your editorial conclusions about the Dennis cottage colony should be based upon facts.

The National Marine Life Center's new hospital facility received a big boost from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole over the past few weeks, officials from the marine animal hospital said this week.

Their findings, published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series , show the impact of changing coastal and ocean temperatures on fisheries from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Canadian border.

The Steamship Authority will spend $8.6 million on a 47-acre industrial site in Falmouth to develop a new parking lot off Route 28.

While it may not be the lifelong love affair the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy had with Cape Cod, Senate candidate Steve Pagliuca is a big fan.

The 38th season of the Woods Hole Folk Music Society continues Sunday with a concert of traditional Appalachian, Irish and Scottish music by Little Windows.

Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching turtles in fishing gear.

Published Online October 22, 2009 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1180251 Reports Submitted on August 6, 2009 Accepted on October 7, 2009 Jerry M. Melillo 1*, John M. Reilly 2, David W. Kicklighter 1, Angelo C. Gurgel 3, Timothy W. Cronin 4, Sergey Paltsev 2, Benjamin S. Felzer 5, Xiaodong Wang 6, Andrei P. Sokolov 2, C. Adam Schlosser 2 1 The ...

Carbon emissions caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures may be twice as much as those from lands devoted to biofuels production IMAGE: MBL senior scientist Jerry Melillo and his colleagues have found that carbon emissions from land-use change caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures by a global biofuels program... MBL, ...

The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil.