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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for new datacentre
Article by Miranda Bryant
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A powerful gene-editing technique has been used to edit DNA directly in a person’s body — the first known instance of such a treatment.
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“Holy guacamole, look at this thing!”
Here’s a throwback to 2015, when a team aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer found what remains the largest sponge ever discovered by most measures. Learn more about this sponge in our new Ocean Exploration fact: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean…
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🌿 🌊r Jennifer Smith, a marine biologist at Scripps Oceanography, leads a team spearheading efforts to understand and restore San Diego’s threatened kelp forests.
Watch this video and head to this link to learn more: bit.ly/4dnLhui
There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline
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Only a few days left! Join the 2027 Nautilus Exploration Program and sail aboard #EVNautilus next year! Apply by October 15: NautilusLive.org/education
#scienceinternship #sciencecommunication #scienceteacher #oceanscience #ROVengineering #videoengineering #seafloormapping
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⚓️📢 DIVE ALERT! The ROVs are in the water for the last dive of NA182 and the 2026 expedition season. Join us for the exploration of Middle Bank at NautilusLive.org
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The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October
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Okeanos Explorer is headed North!
After several days exploring near American Samoa, we’re now sailing towards Jarvis Island for some additional mapping before we make port in Honolulu.
See more about how we map the seafloor here: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean…
ALT A view off the port side of a ship at sea. One of the ship's small orange boats hangs in the foreground.
ALT A double rainbow at sea.
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The @unols Deep Submergence Science Committee is accepting applications for its New User Program. Participate in a workshop tailored to engage new users of deep-submergence science facilities on December 5-6 , 2026. Apply by Tuesday Oct 13, 2026 here: forms.gle/UkU4YXwDeFCUrXUA6.
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AlphaFold is being upgraded to better represent some of the least known and deadliest species: viruses
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Join us on 28 Sept. for a rich discussion about seamount ecology, what scientists have learned so far, and what remains to be understood about underwater mountains in our Ocean.
Register: schmidtocean-org.zoom.us/web…
Enceladus’s ice plumes concentrate ocean chemicals in individual grains, which could make signs of life easier to detect if they are present. @fu_berlin @ScienceAdvances phys.org/news/2026-09-great-…
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⚓️📣DIVE ALERT: The ROVs are in the water for a 24 hour dive at an abyssal plain dive site in international waters south of the Hawaiian archipelago. This is our first dive of NA182! Join us at NautilusLive.org
When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return.
Learn more: scim.ag/3UCeGdA #ScienceMagArchives
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NA181 Science Team member Nayeli Garcia explains processing #eDNA (#environmentalDNA) samples on #EVNautilus
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15 million years ago, the direction of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢’s spiral shells flipped to the left. And then 5 million years later, they all shifted to the right. The mystery of this switch may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. quantamagazine.org/why-do-th…
