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1,400 results for: antarctica

  1. Space

    Vesta seems more planet than asteroid

    Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up celestial body.

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  2. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Antarctic ice flows, atmospheric response to nuclear fallout and more in this week's news.

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  3. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Airplanes knock rain from the sky, plus a quick-melting glacier and BPA's diabetes link in this week's news.

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  4. Animals

    Epidemic of skin lesions reported in reef fish

    A British-Australian research team has just found coral trout living on the south side of the Great Barrier Reef sporting dark skin raised, scablike, brown-black growths. Although the authors believe they’ve stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — other experts have their doubts. Strong ones.

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  5. Earth

    Arctic ozone loss in 2011 unprecedented

    Report describes a ‘hole’ comparable to conditions observed over Antarctica during the mid-1980s.

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  6. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    How Antarctica got its ice, plus Chinese dust-ups and rising bird malaria in this week’s news.

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  7. Life

    Eight-legged evolution exploits editing

    Octopuses adapt to water temperature with tweaks to how genes are copied, not DNA itself.

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  8. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1990s

    Detecting climate change and other highlights, 1990–99

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  9. Humans

    Contrasting the concerns over climate and ozone loss

    On November 7, ozone and climate scientists met in Washington, D.C., to discuss whether the history of stratospheric ozone protection offered a useful case study about how to catalyze global action on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The simple answer that emerged: No.

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  10. Chemistry

    Life’s building blocks grow close to home

    Chemical reactions in the early solar system create complex organic molecules.

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  11. Chasing a Cosmic Engine

    After 100 years, energetic space particles continue to pose a perplexing mystery.

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  12. Earth

    Ozone loss made tropics rainier

    Hole over Antarctica changes weather patterns all the way to the equator, simulations suggest.

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