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NASA sees into the eye of a monster storm on Saturn

The “hurricane” spans a dark area inside a thick, brighter ring of clouds. It is approximately 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across, or two thirds the…

Reef warns of sea level rise

A fossil coral reef, lying several metres above today’s high tide mark at Foul Bay near Margaret River, points to the high point of the last major sea level…

Life in the extreme

Extensive fields of hydrocarbon-rich gas seepage, mud volcanoes and pockmarks have all been mapped by the EUROCORES programme EUROMARGINS. On 4 – 6 October…

UC San Diego Scientists Establish Connection Between Life Today and Ancient Changes in Ocean Chemistry

Using protein structures for the first time in such a study, the research establishes one of the influences that geochemistry has had upon life.The study,…

Metagenomics of the Ocean's Viral Species

The ocean is full of life—large, small, and microscopic. Bacteriophage (phage) viruses are minute, self-replicating bundles that alter microorganisms’ genetic…

Joining forces to predict tsunamis: Pan-European approach to disaster prevention

This, amongst other things, is what leading scientists in ocean margin research came together to discuss at the recent EUROMARGINS conference in Bologna,…

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