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Some lakes more polluted than the oceans

Microplastic particles are smaller than five millimeters. © pcess609/ iStock Some of the world's oceans are so polluted with plastic waste that huge garbage patches...

New gene scissors discovered

Cryo-electron micrograph of Fanzor gene scissors on DNA (red) © Zhang lab/ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard/ McGovern Institute for Brain Research at...

A deep-sea octopus on the move

"Dumbo" octopus Cirrotheutis muelleri catching prey on the seabed of the deep sea. © Eva Ramirez-Llodra (REV Ocean, NIVA)/ ROV Aurora Borealis technicians...

A reference point for the Anthropocene

Sedimentary layers from Canada's Crawford Lake. © Tim Patterson We humans have changed the earth more than any organism before us. For this reason, our...

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