Oceans
Medicine from the Sea
From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
Iceberg Wrangler
When a million-ton iceberg threatens your $5 billion oil platform, who you gonna call? Jerome Baker
Lasting Impressions
Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
Message in a Bottle
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
Master of the Deep
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
We're Scraping Bottom
As vessels around the world drag nets and dredges across the seabed, they slowly destroy the biome
Wiring the Jersey Coast
In one spot on the continental shelf, scientists aim to understand all that happens, 24 hours a day
Phenomena, Comment and Notes
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
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