The scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution on an expedition to the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015. Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong via Getty Images My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location.
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Before dawn on a windy day, two dozen climate scientists shiver on the top deck of a research ship, watching as tugboats pull them ...
An ocean-drilling research programme that has been the most successful and productive global geosciences collaboration for decades will come to a stark end next year. The US National Science ...
In July 2022, a football-sized, soft-sided UPS package from Germany arrived in my office mail room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was expecting the package, but I was surprised at just how ...
In May 2023, a team of researchers aboard the JOIDES Resolution drilled 1,268 meters into the Earth’s crust, reaching mantle-altered rock closer than ever before. Working just south of the Lost City ...
Barbara John, left, a professor in the UW Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Frieder Klein, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, describe core hosting some of the mantle rocks recovered ...
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