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Growing up in Maine, Desirée Plata watched her grandmother suffer from illnesses that she suspected were related to trichloroethylene—a colorless…
Matthew Jackson began his journey to the center of the Earth on lonely gravel roads in Montana. Uninterested in motorcycles…
Like a knife slicing through denim, the black dorsal fin broke the surface of the icy water quickly, and then…
The ship hit the whale with a force that snapped her 14-foot jawbone like a toothpick and left a 4-foot-long…
The scientific method can divert researchers down curious pathways. Human psychologists study mouse brains. Astrophysicists look for cosmic particles deep…
Mike Jakuba was still a year away from being born when scientists found vents on the seafloor that gushed hot,…
About one and a half million years ago, a great hidden piece of the ocean’s crust uplifted and rotated, giving…
Graduate student Anna Michel is adapting laser technology to the murky fluid environment and crushing pressures at depths of 11,000 feet. The goal is to develop an instrument that can directly measure the many elements spewing from hydrothermal vents just as they emerge from Earth?s crust.
Sheri Simmons gets into the rugged wilderness as often as she can, backpacking in Newfoundland, the Sierras, the Adirondacks, and…
Eric Montie has a great tan, photos of huge waves taped above his computer, and a penchant for grabbing his short…
