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It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

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Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

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What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...