Challenges to studying the ionosphere’s ability to conduct electrical currents undercut scientists’ efforts to improve space weather forecasting models. Let’s tackle them together.
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Scientists Float a New Theory on the Medusae Fossae Formation
Pumice-like rafts of lightweight material could have carried volcanic debris across an ancient Martian ocean to build one of the most puzzling features on the Red Planet.
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Once Again into the Northwest Passage
After two unsuccessful tries, a hardy band of undergraduate students conducted a successful Arctic research and outreach expedition through the Northwest Passage.
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From Blowing Wind to Running Water: Unifying Sediment Transport
Laboratory experiments and grain-scale computer simulations during the past decade have led to a more universal understanding of flow-driven sediment transport across flows in oil, water, and air.
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A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia
Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.
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Long Live the Laurentian Great Lakes
Living in Geologic Time: Billion-year-old rifting events set the stage for Earth’s greatest lakes.
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Shrinking Ice Sheets Lifted Global Sea Level 14 Millimeters
Researchers measure both grounded and floating ice sheets using satellite data spanning a 16-year period.
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Asia’s Mega Rivers: Common Source, Diverse Fates
How do humans affect the ways that Asia’s mega rivers deliver sediment and dissolved matter to farms, river deltas, and, eventually, the sea? A proposed study would construct an integrated picture.
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How Does Convection Work Over the Tropics?
A new conceptual framework on how convection works in the tropics helps advance understanding of the contrast between land and ocean and how the tropics will respond to climate change.
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Humans Colonized Polynesia Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
Evidence from mud, charcoal, and feces suggests humans arrived in East Polynesia during the driest period in 2 millennia.