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Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles

In the course of the past 40 years, the major wind-driven current systems in the ocean have steadily shifted toward the poles. Experts at the Alfred Wegener…

Marine Expedition Sheds Light on the Interior of the Earth

From Hannover to the Southwest Indian Ridge: Between 6 March and 12 April 2020, a team from the Institute of Mineralogy at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)…

Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate cooling

In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting…

Active droplets

Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but also continuously administered over periods of up to…

Sweet beaks: What Galapagos finches and marine bacteria have in common

The variety of finch species on the remote Galapagos Islands is the most prominent example for Charles Darwin’s and Alfred R. Wallace’s theory of evolution…

Insights into the origin of life: how the first protocells divided

If we could travel four billion years back in time, we would find ourselves in a rather inhospitable environment: an atmosphere in which we would suffocate…

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