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  Saturn Is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests; Moons and Rings Date Back to Solar System's Birth

  March 27, 2013 — A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tinted on ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Summer Melt Season Getting Longer on Antarctic Peninsula

  March 27, 2013 — New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice ... > full story
• Weather
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  Climate Models Are Not Good Enough, Researcher Argues

  March 25, 2013 — Only a few climate models were able to reproduce the observed changes in extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 ... > full story
• Fossils
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
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  First Migration from Africa Less Than 95,000 Years Ago: Ancient Hunter-Gatherer DNA Challenges Theory of Early out-of-Africa Migrations

  March 22, 2013 — Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution. In particular these ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Global Nitrogen Availability Consistent for Past 500 Years Linked to Carbon Levels

  March 21, 2013 — Despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years, a new study ... > full story
• Earthquakes
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  Roman Mausoleum Tested for Ancient Earthquake Damage

  March 20, 2013 — A Roman mausoleum was knocked off-kilter, and the likely cause was an earthquake, according to a new detailed ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Oceanography
  Animals
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  For Polar Bears, It's Survival of the Fattest

  March 19, 2013 — One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world – and the best studied – is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on ... > full story
• Origin of Life
  Marine Biology
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  Fish
  Nature
   
  

  Oxygen-Poor 'Boring' Ocean Challenged Evolution of Early Life

  March 18, 2013 — Biogeochemists have filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in life's history on Earth. During the period 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ... > full story
• Climate
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  Ten Times More Hurricane Surges in Future, New Research Predicts

  March 18, 2013 — How much worse will the frequency of extreme storm surges get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Geography
   
  

  Significant Contribution of Greenland's Peripheral Glaciers to Sea-Level Rise

  March 18, 2013 — Glaciers at the edge of Greenland which are not connected to its huge ice sheet, or can be clearly separated from it, are contributing to sea-level rise much more than previously thought. Scientists ... > full story

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