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There's life out there
03.05.2013
This week, Science has a whole special issue dedicated to the hunt for habitable planets. One article explains the many techniques to track down Earth-like planets orbiting faraway stars. Other srticles discuss the properties of these planets and the question of their habitability.
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Singing humpback whales tracked on Northwest Atlantic feeding ground
29.04.2013, Science Daily
Male humpback whales sing complex songs in tropical waters during the winter breeding season, but they also sing at higher latitudes at other times of the year. NOAA researchers have provided the first detailed description linking humpback whale movements to acoustic behavior on a feeding ground in the Northwest Atlantic.
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Sea ice maps now go back to 1964
27.04.2013
An article in the open-access journal The Cryosphere presents the earliest Arctic and Antarctic sea ice maps based on data from NASA's Nimbus-1 spacecraft. One ineresting result is that the extent of Antarctic sea ice in 1964 was similar to today's. BBC's Jonathan Amos reports.
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