An incredibly complex system lives beneath our feet, transporting metals to Earth’s crust and undergoing a myriad of chemical reactions that influence our daily lives.
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Scientists Seek DNA Clues in The Environment to Help Threatened Amphibians
Helping preserve rare, threatened amphibians, scientists at Washington State University are launching a $1.4 million effort to unobtrusively find and study them through the environmental traces of their DNA.
Yale Scientists Discover Molecular Key to How Cancer Spreads
Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool with the potential to detect those triggers in patients with certain cancers.
UK’s Goal of Net-Zero Carbon by 2050 Becomes Law
The United Kingdom’s goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 has now become law, making the UK the world’s first G7 country to establish this form of legally binding target, Reuters reported.
Study Finds No Direct Link Between North Atlantic Ocean Currents, Sea Level Along New England Coast
A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) clarifies what influence major currents in the North Atlantic have on sea level along the northeastern United States.
Is a Great Iron Fertilization Experiment Already Underway?
It’s no secret that massive dust storms in the Saharan Desert occasionally shroud the North Atlantic Ocean with iron, but it turns out these natural blankets aren’t the only things to sneeze at.
