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Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams

Hugonnet, R. et al. Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century. Nature 592, 726–731 (2021). Article  ADS  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar  Milner, A. M. et al. Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, 9770–9778 (2017). Article  ADS  PubMed  PubMed Central  CAS  Google Scholar  Battin, T. […]

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NASA’s Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that crossing the streams may lead to the creation of new structure. Researchers have discovered an enormous, comet-like tail of hot gas — spanning over 1.6 million light-years long — trailing behind […]