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Researcher's Findings Offer Clues on the Origins of Life

A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how…

Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

However, concentrations of volcanic activity are significantly displaced from where they are expected to be based on models that predict how the moon's…

An Ancient Biosonar Sheds New Light on the Evolution of Echolocation in Toothed Whales

New research, led by Frants Havmand Jensen, a Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic…

UNH Scientists Document First Expansion of ‘Sea Potato’ Seaweed Into New England

UNH graduate students Lindsay Green and Hannah Traggis discovered the rapid southern expansion of Colpomenia peregrina, also known as sea potato or oyster…

2013 Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record

During the cold and dark of Arctic winter, sea ice refreezes and achieves its maximum extent, usually in late February or early March. According to a NASA…

Thin Clouds Drove Greenland’s Record-Breaking 2012 Ice Melt

Three million cubic kilometers of ice won’t wash into the ocean overnight, but researchers have been tracking increasing melt rates since at least 1979. Last…

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