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Biogeosciences

News 8 February 2021

This Search for Alien Life Starts with Destroying Bacteria on Earth

Someday, a catalog of molecular fragments might help scientists identify extraterrestrial life on our solar system’s icy moons.

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Planetary Sciences

News 10 December 2020

An Ice Probe on Earth Could Help Us Find Life in Space

An instrument called WATSON can help find biosignatures on icy ocean worlds.

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Planetary Sciences

GeoFIZZ 19 October 2020

Dune Universe Inspires Titan’s Nomenclature

Across the solar system, science collides with science fiction in literary ways.

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Ocean Sciences

News 9 July 2020

Aquatic Plants May Help Chesapeake Bay Resist Ocean Acidification

In freshwater vegetation flats upstream of the Chesapeake, chemical reactions create molecules that raise pH levels in the bay.

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Geohealth

News 2 July 2020

Will COVID’s Cleaner Skies Muddy Climate Models?

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions for a year or two won’t slow down climate change, but they may throw off scientists’ ability to model short-term phenomena.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 12 June 2020

Hackathon Participants Solve Global Problems—from Home

More than 200 participants from 38 countries joined the virtual INSPIRE Hackathon to solve problems in food security, transportation, and more.

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Natural Hazards

News 13 May 2020

How Routine Monitors Weather the Pandemic Storm

Much of routine monitoring can be done remotely these days, but networks aren’t completely immune to COVID-19’s society-halting symptoms.

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Planetary Sciences

News 6 April 2020

Ancient Impact’s Seismic Waves Reveal Pluto’s Ocean, Core

By modeling the waves produced by a massive, ancient impact, scientists have begun to unlock the secrets of Pluto’s interior.

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Planetary Sciences

News 31 January 2020

Scientists Search for Deltas on Saturn’s Largest Moon

Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers that empty into seas...but where are the deltas?

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Planetary Sciences

News 28 January 2020

How Scientists Search for Martian Methane

Finding subsurface reserves of methane on Mars could revolutionize human space travel, but it won’t be an easy hunt.

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