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PIXL Blasts Off for Mars

Ultrasonic Tweezers: Technology to Lift and Steer Solid Objects in a Living Body

Satellite Laser Measurements Reveal Response of Earth's Ice Sheets to Early 21st-Century Climate

PIXL Blasts Off for Mars

PIXL is an X-ray spectrometer integrated into the Perseverance rover that began its journey on July 30th. After landing in early 2021, PIXL will measure the microstructure of rocks in search of fossils and evidence of ancient Martian microbial life.

Ultrasonic Tweezers: Technology to Lift and Steer Solid Objects in a Living Body

In a recent paper, a CIMU team describes successful experiments to manipulate a solid object with ultrasound beams transmitted through the skin.

Satellite Laser Measurements Reveal Response of Earth's Ice Sheets to Early 21st-Century Climate

Recent findings from ICESat-2 are reported in Science: Pervasive ice sheet loss driven by competing ocean and atmosphere processes.

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Spearfish insights from the IGFA great marlin race

HOT Bluewater Magazine

1 November 2020

Beluga whale spotted off San Diego washes up dead on Baja beach, thousands of miles from home

Newsweek

Hannah Osborne

7 October 2020

Some polar bears in far north are getting short-term benefit from thinning ice

UW News

Hannah Hickey

23 September 2020

Vertical movements of a pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus): insights into the species' physiological limitations and trophic ecology in the Red Sea

Arostegui, M.C., P. Gaube, M.L. Berumen, A. DiGiulian, B.H. Jones, A. Røstad, and C.D. Braun

3 December 2020

An assessment of marine atmospheric boundary layer roll detection using Sentinel-1 SAR data

Wang, C., D. Vandemark, A. Mouche, B. Chapron, H. Li, and R.C. Foster

1 December 2020

Bed topography of Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica

Cui, X., and 15 others including L.E. Lindzey

14 November 2020

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