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Turning Carbon Dioxide Gas into Rock Audio Slideshow: An MIT/WHOI student examines a fascinating natural process in Oman Certain minerals readily react with carbon dioxide, effectively taking it out of the air and converting it into solid rock. Could this process be speeded up to help offset the buildup of the greenhouse gas in our atmosphere?Read more » |
Hurricane Hunter
Graduate student uncovers long-buried record of past storms Feb. 13, 2009
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What Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Dec. 23, 2008
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The Turtle and the Robot
An old sea turtle teaches a young engineer about swimming Dec. 19, 2008
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Tracking Nitrogen's Elusive Trail in the Ocean
The 'isotope effect' offers a new way to follow where nitrogen goes Dec. 12, 2008
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Another Greenhouse Gas to Watch: Nitrous Oxide
Where are steadily rising levels of the gas coming from? Dec. 12, 2008
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A Tale of Two Oceans, and the Monsoons
Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoons Dec. 5, 2008
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A Most Ingenious Paradoxical Plankton
How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche? Nov. 25, 2008
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Shellfish's Mysterious Pathways to Adulthood
A grad student peers into the lives of larvae, before they grow up to be scallops Nov. 19, 2008
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