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Just chilling: Yale researchers share some of their coldest moments

In Reina Maruyama’s line of work, you can’t call yourself a real scientist until you’ve flirted with frostbite while scouting for subatomic particles at the South Pole.
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Jim Shelton
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Graduate student Mengnan Zhao, shown here on an ice floe in the Arctic Circle. Behind her is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker. (Photo by Richard Krishfield / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
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Yale researchers share some of their coldest moments

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    Anthony Leiserowitz and Darcy Dugan conducted research in villages in Alaska's Northwest Arctic Borough.
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    Darcy Dugan prepares to conduct an experiment with a cup of boiling water in -60 degree weather.
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    Dugan flings the water into the air and it vaporizes.
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    Reina Maruyama, front row and waving, is shown with other members of the IceCube collaboration. (Photo by Robert Schwarz, NSF)

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