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Sitting Pretty

During recent dock trials in San Diego Harbor, the rebuilt and upgraded submersible Alvin underwent an incline test while attached to the stern of its support ship, R/V Atlantis. The test was designed to measure the sub's stability in the water and to calculate its righting moment—the force that tends to restore a leaning, or heeling, ship to upright. From the test, the sub was found to be even more stable than the previous design. (Photo by Lisa Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Decline of the Emperor Penguin? 

Rising temperatures and melting Antarctic sea ice could be contributing to the decline of the iconic Emperor penguin.

Sassy Scallops

Scientists learn that scallop larvae are susceptible to ocean acidification, an issue that could have a big impact on a commercially valuable species.

An Oddity About Lyme Disease Bacteria

The pathogen that causes Lyme disease can exist without iron, a metal needed by all other life.

Fukushima: WHOI Scientist Studies Irradiated Water

Cape Cod Times

New Life Discovered Growing on 'Plastisphere'
ABC News

Ancient Seawater Twice as Salty as Modern Seawater
Huffington Post

Typhoon Haiyan: Is an Era of Super Storms upon Us?
Christian Science Monitor

John Steele's Passion for Science had Lasting Effect at WHOI
Cape Cod Times

What Doomed the Stromalites?

It's a mystery why these formations, made by photosynthetic cynobacteria, began to disappear one billion years ago.

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