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Featured Stories | January 22, 2018
A Double Whammy for Corals
Global warming and local weather combine to cause massive bleaching -
Featured Stories | January 22, 2018
Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature
Why the mantle may be hotter than we thought -
Featured Stories | January 22, 2018
Will Oxygen in the Ocean Continue to Decline?
New technique measures how fast deoxygenation can happen -
Featured Stories | January 19, 2018
Microbial communities demonstrate high turnover
New research provides insight into the behavior of microbial communities in the ocean. -
Featured Stories | January 17, 2018
A Primer on Understanding Climate Science
MIT professor Kerry Emanuel explains the science behind climate change as well as the associated risks. -
Featured Stories | January 11, 2018
School of Science welcomes three new professors this spring
This spring, the MIT School of Science welcomes three new professors in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. EAPS Brent Minchew's research focuses on the dynamics of extant glaciers, with an emphasis on the mechanics of glacier beds, ice-ocean interactions, and ice rheology. -
Featured Stories | January 10, 2018
A Close-up Look at a Rare Underwater Eruption
Expedition to explore the Havre volcano reveals surprising details -
Featured Stories | January 6, 2018
Nicholas Hawco PhD ’17 Receives the 2017 Rossby Award
The award is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. -
Featured Stories | January 3, 2018
Scientists Find Surprising Evidence of Rapid Changes in the Arctic
Scientists have found surprising evidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic: In the middle of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, they discovered that the levels of radium-228 have almost doubled over the last decade. -
Featured Stories | December 21, 2017
Pairing Mismatch Helps Impaired Fish RNA Cleavage Proceed Swimmingly
Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered how small changes in the fish Argonaute (Ago) protein, an RNA slicing protein, that happened in its lineage an estimated 300 million years ago greatly diminished the efficiency of RNAi in these animals, while another ancestral feature, in a critical pre-microRNA, was retained that enabled the microRNA to still be produced despite the fish’s impaired Ago protein. -
Featured Stories | December 15, 2017
Celebrating a decade of interdisciplinary microbiology
The Microbiology Graduate PhD Program spans 50 labs across 10 departments and divisions, offering a broad approach to microbial science and engineering. Professors like Andrew Babbin Otto Cordero, Martin Polz, Penny Chisholm and Roger Summons are helping to prepare the next generation of scientists studying marine microbes. -
Featured Stories | December 14, 2017
Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River. -
Featured Stories | December 12, 2017
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments, two with a focus on ocean sciences. -
Featured Stories | December 12, 2017
Aqua Incognita
The quest to establish outposts in the far reaches of the ocean -
Featured Stories | December 12, 2017
Diving for Data
Ocean Gliders and Their Pilots Are Helping Scientists Understand the Sea -
Featured Stories | December 12, 2017
The Young Woman and the Sea
A conversation with WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue -
Featured Stories | December 8, 2017
Researchers Establish Long-sought Source of Ocean Methane
An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas. -
Featured Stories | December 6, 2017
WHOI Ship Atlantis Launches New Mission to Find Missing Argentinian Submarine
Research vessel loads Navy deep-diving vehicle -
Featured Stories | December 4, 2017
Alumnus Uses Unique Sonar to Reveal Underwater Mysteries
Profile of Alum Martin Klein ’62 -
Featured Stories | November 8, 2017
Research for Global Needs, Present and Future
New Research Reception gives alumni and the community an inside look at research and initiatives in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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