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All news for September 25, 2012

• Stratospheric Winds Churn Up the Abyss (Sep 25, 2012)
  
  from http://news.sciencemag.org/ High in the stratosphere, a vortex of winds is spinning, and that lofty swirling eddy might stir the ocean depths. New supercomputer simulations suggest that the stratospheric vortex of winds helps churn the oceans around the planet—and therefore also might help shape global climate, the researchers say....