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Greenland ice loss much faster than expected

The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research.

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Greenland ice.

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GOCE reveals what’s going on deep below Antarctica

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Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Mato Grosso, Brazil

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New biomass map to take stock of the world’s carbon

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Biomass: Quantifying carbon in forests.

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Radiation rotifer

The 19th SpaceX Dragon supply mission to the International Space Station will carry cargo for astronauts to run experiments for European researchers on Earth. One curious cargo is the microscopic organism, rotifers, that researchers will study in space to hopefully reveal some secrets of their unique powers.

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Adineta vaga rotifer

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New instrument extends LIGO’s reach

Technology “squeezes” out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detected.

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Researchers install a new quantum squeezing device into one of LIGO’s gravitational wave detectors.

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First NASA Parker Solar Probe Results Reveal Surprising Details of Sun

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe observed a slow solar wind flowing out from the small coronal hole – the long, thin black spot seen on the left side of the Sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory – on October 27, 2018. While scientists have long known that fast solar wind streams flow from coronal holes near the poles, they have not yet conclusively identified the source of the Sun's slow solar wind.

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New maps of salinity reveal the impact of climate variability on oceans

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Global sea-surface salinity 2012 and 2017

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Astronomers Propose a Novel Method of Finding Atmospheres on Rocky Worlds

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This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have identified a new method that could allow Webb to detect an exoplanet’s atmosphere in just a few hours of observing time.

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Hubble Detects Dynamic Galactic Duo

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Hubble Detects Dynamic Galactic Duo