Kiel and AWI researchers imaged a 580-cubic-kilometre sediment wedge off East Antarctica that records ice halting its retreat and advancing about 65 km. The authors link the stall partly to the seafloor itself, so ice-sheet models now have a site where simulated retreat has to pause and push back.
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Max Planck researchers found gutless marine worms gain and lose essential bacterial partners over time, in a survey of nearly 250 worms from 63 species. The result shows that complete dependence on a microbe can coexist with changing partners across evolutionary time.
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Surface collection, geophysics and coring at Opovo Ugar-Bajbuk between 2022 and 2024 put the late Neolithic settlement above 9 hectares with up to 220 houses and more than 700 people at its peak. The house sizes vary too little to mark out a wealthy few.
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A review in Reviews of Geophysics, written across 16 countries, argues that ice-sheet models go wrong mainly where the bed beneath the coastal ice has never been measured, which puts coordinated surveying ahead of model development in the queue.
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A PNAS study reports the first direct evidence that Natufian foragers on Mount Carmel ate lizards and snakes, across 20 settlement layers spanning roughly 3,000 years.
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