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20,000-year-old freshwater aquifer found under Atlantic
Brandon Dugan, Baker Hughes Chair in Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics, associate department head, professor of geophysics, said the idea that there might be fresh water under the ocean emerged first in the 1980's.
January 23, 2026
Seabed sabotage, germanium, and the future of American digital power
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authors this piece that makes the argument that it’s not solely the vulnerability of undersea cables that constrains U.S. digital and military power, but China’s leverage over ....
January 23, 2026
School of Mines launches nation's first quantum systems engineering bachelor's degree
Fred Sarazin, department head/professor of physics and Mines director of quantum, joined Fox31 morning news hosts to discuss why Mines decided to launch a bachelor's degree program in quantum systems engineering.
January 21, 2026