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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Barnacles could help find location of lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, scientists say

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Scientists have developed a new technique to reconstruct the path and origin of debris from the missing flight MH370 that was lost over the Indian Ocean in 2014 with 239 passengers.

The method, described in the journal AGU Advances,involves analysing the shell chemistry of barnacles to determine the environmental circumstances such as the temperature and ocean drift conditions under which the marine organisms grew.

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