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Plant Evolution Led to Permanent Changes to the Way Rivers Looked and Behaved

This is a time of continents colliding, North America and Greenland hitting Europe, smashing together and making mountains. The planet’s land mass is mostly…

The Science Behind the Haiti Earthquake

In its wake, the magnitude-seven quake in Port-au-Prince created a humanitarian crisis that the world is still trying desperately to respond to. While the…

Stacking the deck: Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds

This experimental demonstration confirms intriguing quantum-physics predictions that light's transit time through complex multilayered materials need not…

The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years

*”Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that…

French Pavilion brings best of marine technology to Oceanology

Two French maritime clusters – Pôle Mer Bretagne (Brittany Maritime Cluster, in western France) and Pôle Mer PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Maritime Cluster,…

U.S. Southwest Expected to Dry Further as Climate Warms

Burns is an expert in reading past climate data from the ratio of oxygen isotopes found in calcite, in speleothems—stalagmites, stalactites and other…

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