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A Hole New Perspective on Brood X
Brood X, the largest group of 17-year cicadas, are preparing to emerge broadly around our area in the coming week, experts say.(Animation by Emma Howells) Most students would have walked right by the Swiss cheese-like ground near Memorial Chapel, or even picked up the pace. But when sophomore Colette Lord moved in for a closer look last Tuesday evening, she found the former inhabitants of the holes wriggling up a nearby tree.
$1.4M Grant to Expand Enslaved.org
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.4 million to expand the reach of Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), a database containing records on hundreds of thousands of individuals living in the era of the historical slave trade—including enslaved peoples as well as enslavers.
CBCB Researchers Develop Tool that Makes Reconstructing Microbial Genomes Easier
In the seafaring world, a binnacle is a wooden stand placed near the ship’s helm that holds important tools and instruments needed to navigate from one point to the next.
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