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Add science to one of your lists below, or create a brand new one. COVER The muddy Markarfljót River in Iceland carries a heavy load of sediment to the sea. Throughout the world, mud—a mixture of fantastic sediment and water—is one of the most common and consequential substances. For better and worse, humans at the moment are closely influencing how mud forms and the place it piles up. Uromodulin filaments in human urine associate with uropathogens and mediate bacterial aggregation and clearance.
But more profound still, the story of our oceans envelops our house in a far bigger context that reaches deep into the universe and places us in a rich household of ocean worlds that span our solar system and past...
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