When you don't know how to get to an unfamiliar place, you probably rely on a smart phone or other device with a Global Positioning System (GPS) module for guidance. You may not realize that, especially at high latitudes ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2015
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Identical twins - Hugo and Ross Turner – will begin a unique expedition across the polar ice cap of Greenland this week, during which researchers at King's will study how modern clothes, food and equipment protect the body.
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has found that temperature feedback in the Arctic is causing more warming in that region than sea ice albedo. In their paper published in the journal ...
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by now you might have seen dramatic images of passengers on stranded icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy being rescued by helicopter last Friday after becoming lodged ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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Enjoy views of the martian north pole from all angles in this new animation from ESA's Mars Express.
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2013
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Columbia climatologist Maureen Raymo is trying to predict the planet's future by looking to its past.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2013
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Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Spring is a dynamic season on the dunes surrounding Mars' north pole. When frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, deposited as a winter ice cap on Mars sublimates – changes directly from a solid to a gas – in ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2013
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Over the past several years, Rong Li, Ph.D., at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has been making crucial discoveries about the development of cell polarity—the process by which one side of a cell becomes different ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 22, 2013
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A group of scientists led by Prof. Oliver P. Love try to determine how snow bunting populations are linked in space and time. Considering that the snow bunting poses an extra challenge to monitor due to its inaccessible breeding ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2013
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