Underwater Acoustics System Helps Baby Corals Thrive
August 18th, 2025
Via IEEE Spectrum, a report how on underwater acoustics systems can help baby corals thrive: Sound bathing isn’t just a human wellness trend: It might be good for corals, too. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts have developed an underwater audio system that helps coral larvae to choose their permanent home. They’ve found […]
Read More »Out of the Wild: How A.I. Is Transforming Conservation Science
May 22nd, 2025
Via Yale’s e360, a look at how artificial intelligence is being called a game changer for enabling scientists and conservationists to process vast troves of data collected remotely. But some warn its use could keep biologists from getting out in the field with the animals and ecosystems they are studying. It has always been challenging […]
Read More »Help Wanted: The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants
May 18th, 2025
Via Audobon, a report on how – from frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants – researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world: In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie State’s backroads […]
Read More »Enlisting Paparazzi to Save a Gigantic Fish
May 18th, 2025
Via Nautilus, a look at how crowd-sourced data on the giant sea bass suggest it’s making a rebound The giant sea bass lives up to its name—the bulky fish can stretch up to nearly 9 feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds. It has a pretty massive fan club, too: The beloved bony fish […]
Read More »Could AI Text Alerts Help Save Snow Leopards From Extinction?
April 21st, 2025
Via BBC, an article on how AI text alerts help save snow leopards from extinction: Snow leopards cannot growl. So when we step towards one of these fierce predators, she’s purring. “Lovely,” as she’s called, was orphaned and rescued 12 years ago in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan. After years of relying on staff to feed her, she […]
Read More »Google Is Training AI to Speak Dolphin
April 17th, 2025
Via Scientific American, an article on Google’s efforts to develop an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins: Dolphins are renowned for their intelligence and social skills. These large-brained marine mammals communicate using individualized signature clicks and whistles and even seem to recognize their own “names.” Big advances in artificial intelligence have renewed some scientists’ dream of eventually […]
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