Ancient biology and modern medicine: Horseshoe crab monitoring in Brevard County

Ancient biology and modern medicine: Horseshoe crab monitoring in Brevard County

Merritt Island, Florida – On a windy morning in Kerry Park East, a small group of volunteers fanned out along the coastline with clipboards and buckets, staring into the waves as they searched for one of nature’s oldest survivors. they are part of Florida Horseshoe Crab Watcha statewide citizen science initiative that turns ordinary Florida … Read more

This may be a daughter of one of the first stars in our universe. Scientists call this “ancient migration”

A diagram showing the orbit of a star over time.

Primordial stars found to contain few elements heavier than hydrogen or helium could be direct descendants of one of the first stars in the universe. if star If they were like myths, the first generation of stars that existed in the universe would be like the gods of ancient Greece. It was huge and mysterious, … Read more