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Earthshine reflects Earth’s oceans and continents from the dark side of the Moon

The paper is published in this week’s edition of the international journal Astrobiology.Sally Langford from the University of Melbourne’s School of Physics who…

Better living through chemistry

Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may…

UIC biologists use DNA to study migration of threatened whale sharks

That threat is underscored in a new study from geneticists led by Jennifer Schmidt, University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor of biological…

New Arctic satellite data shows Arctic literally on thin ice

The researchers, who have been tracking Arctic sea ice cover with satellites since 1979, found that the winter of 2008-09 was the fifth lowest maximum ice…

Bent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off

A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-standing explanation for this distinctive feature was a change in direction of the Pacific oceanic…

Titan may have subsurface ocean of hydrocarbons

Titan is also more squashed in its overall shape—like a rubber ball pressed down by a foot—than researchers had expected, said Howard Zebker, a Stanford…

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