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But new research suggests a new player is making an impact: us. By studying foraminifera, tiny single-celled marine organisms that leave behind fossil shells, a team of researchers from the University ...

This image illustrates how a star illuminates and heats the day side of a synchronously rotating planet, and the phenomena of transit and occultation (eclipse). The bottom of the figure shows the ...