Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it's closing a New England power plant.
Regulators were surprised to find residential solar panels shoring up the region's grid during the coldest months. It could reshape the national debate on #solar #greenenergy #massachusetts #climate
Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it's closing a New England power plant.
Regulators were surprised to find residential solar panels shoring up the region's grid during the coldest months. It could reshape the national debate on #somervillema #everettma #solar #climatechange #newengland #greenenergy #boston
Fee-Waived Adoptathon for Small Animals and Birds
Smol frens await you, neighbors! #pets #bostonma #somervillema #cambridgema #boston
https://www.mspca.org/events/fee-waived-adoptathon-for-guinea-pigs/
Opinion | My husband has farmed for 4 decades. Climate change might end his run.
...But as we come to the end of the wettest July on record, “make hay while the sun shines” has been shifting from self-evident axiom to rueful irony. Yes, you have to make hay while you can. But also you need sunshine to make hay.... #climatechange #agriculture #farming #environment
We need more than GMO Corn to Save Us From Climate Change
I’ve argued before that GMO crop breeding, which inserts bits of DNA from one species of plant into the genome of another, can be judiciously applied in ways that benefit human health and the environment.... #gmo #crispr #agriculture #Biotechnology
Waltham biotech company settles with family of Henrietta Lacks over "immortal" cells harvested without consent
Doctors harvested Henrietta Lacks’ cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that a Waltham-based biotechnology company has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the cell line became known. #hela #henriettalacks #scicomm #Biotechnology
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/01/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-settlement-waltham-hela
Doctors harvested Henrietta Lacks’ cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that a Waltham-based biotechnology company has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the cell line became known.
Man Who Debunked RFK Jr. Long Ago Describes His 'Whack-A-Mole' Candidacy
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful. #rfkjr #antivaxxers #vaccines #vaccinessavelives #autism
Modifying shelf-life of melons via gene editing
The gaseous plant hormone ethylene has been long known to promote fruit ripening and plays a certain role in shelf-life. In a study published in Frontiers in Genome Editing, researchers performed gene editing using the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system via modification of the... #crispr #gmo #foodsecurity #sustainability #Biotechnology
The gaseous plant hormone ethylene has been long known to promote fruit ripening and plays a certain role in shelf-life. In a study published in Frontiers in Genome Editing, researchers performed gene editing using the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system via modification of the ethylene synthesis pathway in the Japanese luxury melon (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus "Harukei-3") to increase its shelf life.
Lace-inspired murals celebrating European folk traditions – in pictures
The artist NeSpoon takes inspiration from nature and local craftspeople for her work #publicart #murals #bobbinlace #needlelace #Lace
