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Melting Million-Year-Old Ice

Caption: James Gosses of the University of California at Riverside (right) and Julie Smith of the University of Delaware load decontaminated ice into a custom-made chamber for melting and concentrating the ice core.

Credit: Craig Cary/University of Delaware

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