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Science Updates

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How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”?

by Aubrey Zerkle 30 July 202416 January 2025

Geochemical sleuthing amid acid mine runoff suggests that scientists should rethink an isotope signal long taken to indicate low levels of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s deep past.

Uranus as seen with the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam.
Posted inScience Updates

A Mission to Uranus Requires a Community-Building Effort on Earth

by Erin J. Leonard, Mark Hofstadter, Naomi Rowe-Gurney, Jamie M. Jasinski and David Atkinson 23 July 202423 July 2024

Planning the first mission to Uranus since the 1980s offers an opportunity to build a diverse, interdisciplinary team that spans generations.

Close up view of a cylindrical yellow ocean temperature sensor affixed to a green fishing net sitting on a metal surface, with a fish lying flat beside the sensor
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The Moana Project Braids Tradition and Science for a More Sustainable Ocean

by João Marcos Azevedo Correia de Souza, Julie Jakoboski, Jonathan Gardner, Maui Hudson and Malene Felsing 31 May 202424 September 2024

Scientists and Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand are gathering knowledge on marine conditions and ecosystems to protect livelihoods and help ensure a sustainable future for the blue economy.

Emissions rise from smokestacks in the distance, beyond trees silhouetted by low sunlight.
Posted inScience Updates

An Air Quality Model That Is Evolving with the Times

by Min Huang, Gregory Carmichael and Kevin Bowman 28 May 202428 May 2024

The pioneering Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model, initially designed to simulate atmospheric sulfur, continues to find new applications and value in environmental science and policymaking.

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Posted inScience Updates

Telecom Fibers Are Sensing Earthquake Hazards in Istanbul

by Daniel Bowden, Ebru Bozdag, Ali Shaikhsulaiman, Andreas Fichtner and Özgün Konca 21 May 202428 May 2024

A fiber-optic cable below Türkiye’s earthquake-prone metropolis is offering new details about how seismic waves will rattle the city—and demonstrating the potential of a bigger monitoring effort.

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Posted inScience Updates

How Are Deep Soils Responding to Warming?

by Fabrizzio Protti Sánchez, Avni Malhotra, Michael W. I. Schmidt, Cornelia Rumpel and Margaret S. Torn 17 April 202417 April 2024

Scientists aim to integrate observations from deep-soil-warming experiments worldwide to better understand how ecosystems vital to food security and environmental health will react to climate change.

Stacked sedimentary rock layers of different thicknesses make up a turbidite bed.
Posted inScience Updates

Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes

by Valerie Sahakian, Debi Kilb, Joan Gomberg, Nora Nieminski and Jake Covault 18 March 202418 March 2024

Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.

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The Open Ocean, Aerosols, and Every Other Breath You Take

by Rachel Shelley, Morgane M. G. Perron, Douglas S. Hamilton and Akinori Ito 1 March 20241 March 2024

Phytoplankton and other marine plants produce half of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen and have big effects on food webs and climate. To do so, they rely on nutrients from the sky that are hard to quantify.

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Ionospheric Fireworks Illuminate Auroral Science

by Tima Sergienko, Yoshihiro Yokoyama, Urban Brändström, Masatoshi Yamauchi and Anders Tjulin 28 February 202428 February 2024

A sounding rocket experiment set off a spectacular nighttime light show over Scandinavia as it produced new insights into ionospheric behavior near an aurora.

A black and white satellite image shows sea ice, with cracks appearing bright white, beside snow-covered landfast ice (gray) and land (dark).
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Monitoring Polar Ice Change in the Twilight Zone

by Ted Scambos, Christopher Shuman, Mark Fahnestock, Tasha Snow and Christopher Crawford 20 February 202421 February 2024

Landsat’s new extended data collection program is mapping Arctic and Antarctic regions year-round, even in polar twilight.

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