With Last Research Ship Gone, US to Lose Ground in Antarctica, Scientists Say
Alison Murray and her colleagues were all set to dive in Antarctica. They planned to build on their earlier finding that sea squirts - sponge-like invertebrates on the seafloor - host a microbe that produces a molecule that could be used to fight skin cancer.
Then Murray's team got word that the U.S. government was pulling its only research ship out of Antarctica.
The U.S. Antarctic Program has had at least one dedicated research vessel in the Southern Ocean for almost six decades - mapping currents, tracking melt under...
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