
Erik Stokstad
Reporter at Science Magazine
Reporter at Science Magazine, covering environmental research & issues. Tweets focus on news from the scientific literature. Views my own.
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4 weeks ago |
science.org | Erik Stokstad
Call it the case of the missing herring. For more than a century, the world’s biggest stock of the oily, nutritious fish has migrated to spawn every year in the same waters off southern Norway, where fishing vessels wait to haul away the rich catch. But in 2021 only a few herring arrived, leaving crews with empty nets and pressing questions.
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science.org | Phie Jacobs |Sara Reardon |Erik Stokstad |Jeffrey Mervis
Amid the grant terminations, program cuts, federal firings, disappearing databases, and myriad other disruptions U.S. science has seen during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration, researchers are facing an uncertain future. Those studying hot-button topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), vaccines, and transgender health are squarely in the crosshairs, but the turmoil extends much further.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Erik Stokstad
Rice plants usually love warmth. But when they start to flower, hot nights can result in meager harvests and chalky grain. So far, breeders have made slow progress in solving these challenges, which are becoming more urgent with climate change. Now, after searching for more than a decade, researchers in China have found a culpable gene, which they describe this week in Cell. They also show that a natural variant of the gene can preserve both yield and rice quality when temperatures rise.
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