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Exotic Creature in Antarctica Has Survived More than 30 Ice Ages

Scientific American April 2020 Its perseverance is rewriting the history of life, and of ice, across the continent  Ian Hogg and Byron Adams peered out the windows of their helicopter as it glided over the rocky slopes of the Transantarctic Mountains, dry peaks that rise above vast ice sheets just 600 kilometers from the South […]

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Do We Live in a Lopsided Universe?

If your life sometimes seems directionless, you might legitimately blame the universe. According to the key tenets of modern physics, the cosmos is “isotropic” at multi-billion-light-year scales—meaning it should have the same look and behavior in every direction. Ever since the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago, the universe ought to have expanded identically […]

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The Carbon We Can’t Afford to Lose

Protected areas have long served as a refuge for wildlife. There are more than 100 endangered species in Hawaii’s Haleakalā National Park alone. Bajo Madidi, in the Bolivian Amazon, is home to rare river otters that grow up to six feet long. And in Indonesia, some of the last Sumatran tigers on Earth prowl through […]

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Obama Talks Some Science Policy

Earlier today, April 14th, former President Barack Obama posted a 12-minute address in which he endorsed Joe Biden for president. No surprise there. And most of the address was about politics. Some of it, though, was about policy. You can’t completely decouple politics and policy, of course. But here are three short clips from Obama […]