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An enigmatic problem in marine ecology uncovered

It seems intuitive that the duration of this open water period should determine the geographic extent over which species are found as species that spend longer…

Consumption, carbon emissions and international trade

The Global Ecology department's Ken Caldeira and Steven Davis commend the work of industrial ecologist Glen Peters and colleagues, published in the same…

Sailing the Titan Seas

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of…

Does the central Andean backarc have the potential for a great earthquake?

Previous research had set the maximum expected earthquake size to be magnitude 7.5, based on the relatively quiet history of seismicity in that area. This new…

What lies beneath the seafloor?

An international team of scientists report on the first observatory experiment to study the dynamic microbial life of an ever-changing environment inside…

Rare deep-sea starfish stuck in juvenile body plan

A team of scientists has combined embryological observations, genetic sequencing, and supercomputing to determine that a group of small disk-shaped animals…

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