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Robotic construction crew needs no foreman

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On the plains of Namibia, millions of tiny termites are building a mound of soil—an 8-foot-tall “lung” for their underground nest. During a year of construction, many termites will live and die, wind and rain will erode the structure, and yet the colony’s...

Measuring the Migration of a River

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Researchers in Taylor Perron's group at MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed a mapping technique that measures how much a river network is changing, and in what direction it may be moving. Their results are...

3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean

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About 1000 meters down in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean sits an unusual legacy of humanity’s love affair with the automobile. It’s a huge mass of seawater infused with traces of the toxic metal lead, a pollutant once widely emitted by cars burning...

A Gold Medal in Oceanography

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John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, recently accepted the 2014 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his “fundamental insights into water mass transformation and deep convection and their implications for...

Water in the Climate System

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Lorenz Center's first workshop, at Endicott House earlier this month, brings climate-science leaders together around the theme of water. EAPS News

A Brave New Ocean World I

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Arguably 20 years in the making, the new floor to ceiling posters on the 15th foor of the Green Building are more than just a stunning picture: They are a detailed representation of ocean behavior from the output of the highest-ever resolution run of a...