Antarctic sea ice expansion and changes in ocean circulation work together to sequester carbon and reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere during glacial climates, according to a new study. @eapsMIT scim.ag/3UbfmXG

While many star systems remain stable, sometimes a star consumes a planet that gets too close. A new study found a star about 300 light years away steadily pulling material off its companion at a rate that could take hundreds of thousands of years. buff.ly/8STBcEy

This new Q&A with @eapsMIT Research Scientist and CS3 affiliate Jonathan Lauderdale explores how #ocean #carbon sequestration changes under different glacial conditions, and how that may influence larger #climate patterns. tinyurl.com/2x6j5dk5

Melting ice shelves are a major contributor to sea level rise. A new Science study of 15,000+ cliffs finds they collapse faster than predicted, but then stabilize, reducing the risk of runaway collapse.
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Astronomers Get a Better Look at a Rare White Dwarf–Brown Dwarf Pair

The white dwarf–brown dwarf pair J0404+1112 — one of only about a dozen known systems like it — offers researchers a chance to study an atmosphere blasted with intense radiation. aasnova.org/2026/10/16/ast…

A rare pairing of a low mass white dwarf and a high mass brown dwarf orbiting each other every 2.93 hours can help shed light on how radiation affects atmospheres.
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The size of the hole in the #ozone layer last month, measuring 10.6 million sq. miles, was especially large. However, longer term trends show that the ozone hole is slowly recovering as expected, says MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon. tinyurl.com/m83y96d

Observations of a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf show a new way that stars and their planetary companions can interact: “Instead of swallowing the thing up, the star can gradually eat it, for billions of years,” Kevin Burdge says. news.mit.edu/2026/astronome…

New experiments suggest some building blocks of life can survive and form complex structures in concentrated sulphuric acid, opening new possibilities for organic chemistry in Venus’s clouds and beyond. @PWr_Wroclaw @eapsMIT @ChemistryMIT
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The Isotope Lab @eapsMIT is a participant in the Anadarko Basin coring project (#DeepDust), supported by @icdpDrilling and @NSF. Coring began on August 16 and exceeded 1 mile as of last weekend. @J_Ramez is on site right now as part of the science team. icdp-online.org/projects/by-co…

MIT researchers, including several affiliated with CS3, are advancing tools to help evaluate a location’s vulnerabilities to flooding, cyclones, humid heat waves, or other #climate-related events. #ExtremeWeather #Resilience tinyurl.com/bdea2566

From studying distant planets at @eapsMIT to tracking crops on Earth: Sheila Baber ’21 uses satellite data through @HarvestProgram to support global food security. 🛰️🌾 bit.ly/4yOmO9W

The atmosphere is telling us what is happening.

For decades, scientists have predicted that human actions would warm the lower atmosphere while cooling the layer above it. Fast-forward, satellites are now seeing the exact pattern.

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@eapsMIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon joins Cleo Abram’s “HUGE* If True” to discuss her 1985 research uncovering how chlorofluorocarbons were depleting the ozone layer, which led to the Montreal Protocol that banned the use of those chemicals.
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What better way to understand climate risks than through a game? With the help of a J-WAFS grant, EAPS PRS Sai Ravela has created a game that helps communities discover ways to improve their collective agricultural resilience. buff.ly/Kt112Iv

Congrats to EAPS Professor Richard Teague on being named an NSF CAREER recipient! His research is focused on developing new methods to detect planetary formation across our universe.
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A scientific career can span many disciplines, from fiuid dynamics to paleoclimate to exoplanet habitability - just ask EAPS Professor of Practice Raymond Pierrehumbert.
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New research has found that peptides - short strings of amino acids - remain stable in extremely acidic environments such as the clouds of Venus. This opens up the types of planets that could host life.
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By looking at ancient mineral grains in a meteorite sample collected in Antarctica, EAPS Professor Ben Weiss and alumni Cauê Borlina estimate that magnetism likely playing a significant role in the formation of the our solar system, including the sun.
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NASA's Pandora mission has started scientific observations! The satellite will observe exoplanet transits, helping refine our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres and how they interact with light as we search for habitable planets in our universe.
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