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  1. Climate

    Glacial microbes gobble methane

    While some bacteria produce methane in Greenland’s melting ice sheet, others may consume the greenhouse gas as it escapes.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Climate

    Multiple oceans may help stall global warming

    The Atlantic and Southern oceans, not the Pacific, may be largely to blame for the recent pause in rising global temperatures.

    By Beth Mole
  3. Psychology

    Rigors of Mars trip make teamwork a priority

    It’s going to take a different kind of mental approach to travel to Mars and back: less individuality, more collaboration and adaptability. Astronauts are being tested to prepare for such a mission.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Astronomy

    Early Mars couldn’t hold liquid water long

    Small rocks hit Mars 3.6 billion years ago, suggesting an early atmosphere too thin for liquid water to hang around very long.

    By Christopher Crockett
  5. Climate

    Coldest place moves from one Antarctic site to another

    New record low measured by satellite.

    By Meghan Rosen
  6. Cosmology

    Gravitational wave discovery gives way to Milky Way dust

    New polarization maps from the Planck satellite suggest that the BICEP2 announcement this year of primordial gravitational waves might be due entirely to dust in our galaxy.

    By Christopher Crockett
  7. Earth

    In Antarctica, melting may beget ice

    Disintegration of floating glaciers could be responsible for freezing of seawater.

    By Erin Wayman
  8. Earth

    Millions of years ago, frozen ice sheet in East Antarctica melted

    Warming may have caused ice sheet collapse and huge increase in sea level.

    By Erin Wayman
  9. Animals

    Antarctic waters may shelter wrecks from shipworms

    Ocean currents and polar front form 'moat' that keeps destructive mollusks at bay.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Cosmology

    Gravitational waves unmask universe just after Big Bang

    For the first time, researchers have seen traces of superfast cosmic expansion and gravity waves.

    By Christopher Crockett
  11. Animals

    Submariners’ ‘bio-duck’ is probably a whale

    First acoustic tags on Antarctic minke whales suggest the marine mammals are the long-sought source of the mysterious bio-duck sound.

    By Susan Milius
  12. Animals

    The Thing With Feathers

    In the new book, "The Thing With Feathers," Noah Strycker brings people nose to beak with the plumed creatures he knows so well.

    By Laura Fisher Kaiser