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University of California, Los Angeles geography scientists study the supraglacial hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Posted inScience Updates

Communicating Arctic Science Creatively for Diverse Audiences

by M. L. Druckenmiller and J. Rohde 10 August 20167 January 2022

Revealing the New Arctic: A Climate Change Communication Workshop; San Francisco, California, 16 December 2015

Crew members load an optical repeater during the deployment of a submarine telecommunications cable system.
Posted inScience Updates

Submarine Cable Systems for Future Societal Needs

by B. M. Howe, J. Aucan and F. Tilmann 9 August 201617 October 2022

5th Workshop on SMART Cable Systems: Latest Developments and Designing the Wet Demonstrator Project; Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 17–18 April 2016

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Rocks in Chile Help Scientists Hunt for Life on Mars

by M. McKinnon 9 August 201612 April 2022

Investigating oxalate minerals in the Atacama Desert provides a terrestrial analogue to test techniques that could be used to study the carbon cycle in the cold deserts of Mars.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Quest to Understand Reversals in Earth's Magnetic Field

by Terri Cook 9 August 201627 January 2023

A review of the major features of the geomagnetic reversals preserved in Earth's rock record helps to answer the question, Which data could advance our understanding of these poorly described events?

Recent covers of the 19 journals that AGU currently publishes.
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AGU Journals: More Content and More Context

by Brooks Hanson 9 August 201625 April 2023

As journal submissions rise, the American Geophysical Union is reducing first-decision times and assembling an ever richer context of news, opinion, and other content related to each published paper.

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Cold Temperatures Set Off Slow-Moving Landslides

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 8 August 20166 October 2021

Falling ground temperatures in the cold season are found to trigger shallow, slow-moving landslides on slopes with clayey soil.

An artist’s illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on the surface of the Moon.
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Government OK's Moon Express Mission to the Moon

by Randy Showstack 5 August 201622 July 2022

The company envisions the mission as a first step in bringing resources from the Moon back to the Earth.

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Minerals Hint at Liquid Groundwater, More Oxygen in Mars's Past

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 5 August 20163 January 2023

Manganese deposits in Gale Crater fractures are similar to Earth features that usually require flowing water and highly oxidizing conditions.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Even the Magnetosphere Has Problems

by Michael W. Liemohn 5 August 201619 January 2023

In a new conference and collection of papers, international space physicists narrow down the enigmas that puzzle magnetospheric science.

This photo shows Jishi Gorge upstream from the landslide dam. Gray silt deposits reveal an ancient, massive lake held by the dam.
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Evidence Found for China's Ancient Origin Story

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 4 August 201624 February 2023

New geological findings suggest that an ancient flood in a popular legend about the birth of China's civilization might have actually occurred, but some 150 years later than historians thought.

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