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Scientists, students led by GSO conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from Arctic Ocean

Swedish Icebreaker Oden at sea

U.S./Canadian team of experts, students to measure vital signs of polar ocean environment, offer real-time reports during 18-day voyage A team of natural and social scientists, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and supported by 25 post-secondary students from the United States and Canada will study vital signs of a […]

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The archaea are winning in energy-poor, oxygen-containing deep-sea sediments

Two scientists collecting sediment cores aboard a research vessel.

Highly efficient archaea, called Thaumarchaea, out-survive bacteria in the energy-poor, oxygen-containing sediments beneath the deep sea. These Thaumarchaea consume bits of proteins from dead cells to build their own biomass and also to obtain energy.

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