Scientists Maurice Ewing (bottom) and Dick Edwards rig a core from the research vessel Atlantis in 1949, not long after the first piston corer was developed. Ewing's piston coring designs remain popular on current corers in use. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) | 
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