An unexpected anomaly was found in the Pacific Ocean – and it could be a global time marker
Could this beryllium-10 anomaly in the Pacific mark the beginning of the modern global ocean circulation? If ocean currents ...
Pacific Coast Highway went from smoldering to flooded in just few weeks: California’s drought-to-deluge cycle on steroids
On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned ...
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Might Uranus And Neptune Have Deep, Multi-Layer Oceans?
Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.
What is the ocean's 'twilight zone' and how are elephant seals helping to monitor it?
Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...
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Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the vast Pacific Ocean
A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran, being published on February 14 as the cover story for Science, reports that seals can essentially act as “smart sensors” for ...
Deep-Sea Mysteries Unraveled: Elephant Seals Unlock the Secrets of the “Twilight Zone”
By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.
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How to Build the World’s Highest Mountain
At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...
Symbiotic bacteria ride along with single-celled protists in ocean's upper layer
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...
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Real Twilight Zones in the Real World - and the Weird Stuff You’ll Find There
In fiction, The Twilight Zone is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between the ...