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Featured space, tech, & engineering stories

Arctic ecosystems get long-term look with drifting research station

Science, September 2024

Riding on top of sea ice, domed vessel will carry crews on 2-year-long polar voyages

Saved from the scrapyard, this famed ‘flipping ship’ gets a second shot at ocean research

Science, November 2024

U.K. firm plans to revamp FLIP before deploying it to study air-sea interactions and how sonar beams travel

Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life

AGU Newsroom, January 2026

Exhaust methane could travel pole-to-pole in under two lunar days, half of it settling in regions potentially harboring original ingredients of earthly life

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The research platform FLIP in vertical orientation, with its top 55 ft protruding vertically above the ocean's surface

(Audio) Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship’

Science Magazine Podcast
Nov. 2024

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