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35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He’s spent his life chasing a sea monster that’s never been taken alive
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From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean’s depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
When a million-ton iceberg threatens your $5 billion oil platform, who you gonna call? Jerome Baker
Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
As vessels around the world drag nets and dredges across the seabed, they slowly destroy the biome
In one spot on the continental shelf, scientists aim to understand all that happens, 24 hours a day
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth’s submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
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