Science named a study co-led by the University of Maine as one of nine runners-up for the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. In August, researchers at UMaine, in collaboration with Princeton University, announced the recovery of an Antarctic ice core that contained record-setting ice 2.7 million years old — shattering the previous record by 1.7
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