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Northwestern scientists plan freeze-casting studies on International Space Station
Published on Helix Magazine Scientists at Northwestern University are taking their flourishing freeze-casting research, which may eventually enable manufacturing in space, to new heights: the International Space Station (ISS). More
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The hunt for Patagonia’s ghost glaciers
Unpublished At the crest of a seemingly nondescript slope on the island of Tierra del Fuego, geomorphologist Rodrigo Soteres slams on the brakes of his rental SUV and abruptly reverses. Some stratification in the exposed hillside has caught his attention. More
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Northwest Indiana residents grapple with implications of dead swans
Published on Medill Reports NORTHWEST INDIANA is a region of many small refuges. For its human occupants, that might be a quiet spot on Whihala Beach facing north, toward Chicago’s glimmering skyline. For wildlife, that might be a bird sanctuary by a casino in Hammond — or perhaps a discharge of warm water from a…
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PHOTO ESSAY: Paleoclimate in Patagonia
UnpublishedIn April 2019, researchers affiliated with the University of Magallanes took Ph.D. students on a field course in Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Chile. For five days, the students learned how to “read” the landforms around them in order to make inferences about where glaciers once crept — and retreated…
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Solar seen as bright career path at Illinois community colleges
Published on Midwest Energy News There was an energy about the 11 students gathered on a sunny December Saturday outside a South Side Chicago construction shop. More
lauren a. robinson, msj 