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The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science located in Woods Hole, MA.
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"Take Five" with John Spear
"Take Five" is an occasional feature in which we pose five questions to an MBL community member about their career, dreams, and passions. Here we talk with John Spear, an alumnus who now co-directs the MBL's Microbial Diversity course and serves as a prof
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Octopuses are technically colourblind - their eyes only have one type of light-sensing cell - and yet they can match the colour beneath them in under a second, which researchers think is because their skin can sense colour directly Space Daily
Roger Hanlon has spent decades studying cephalopod camouflage at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and he still sounds a little amazed by how fast it happens. Asked once how quickly an octopus can change its skin pattern, his answer was imme
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Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins Smithsonian magazine
Editor's note: This article explores new research on octopuses and includes perspective from MBL Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal, who was not involved in the study. Octopuses are incredibly clever creatures. They can open jars, solve mazes and even use
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Villain to hero: Cape Codders chime in on (now) beloved horseshoe crabs CAI
Editor's note: This piece mentions research by two MBL scientists: H. Keffer Hartline, who won the Nobel Prize in 1967 for work on horseshoe crab eyes, and Fred Bang who discovered that horseshoe crab blood clotted in response to gram negative bacteria, l
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Behind the Scenes Through One Embryologist's Lens
Two dozen scientists gathered at the Marine Biological Laboratory for the 6-week Embryology course this summer to explore the questions and technologies driving modern developmental biology. For Emily Setton, a course participant and postdoctoral research
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