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Power from the Sea? Triboelectric nanogenerator extracts energy from ocean waves

American researchers are now aiming to use waves to produce energy by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water.In…

How do krill survive the Antarctic winter?

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with international colleagues could analyse the distribution and behaviour of larval and juvenile krill…

'Stadium Waves' Could Explain Lull In Global Warming

Several ideas have been put forward to explain this hiatus, including what the IPCC refers to as ‘unpredictable climate variability’ that is associated with…

How red crabs on Christmas Island speak for the tropics

Native to the Australian territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, millions of the crabs start rolling across the island roads and…

Water and lava, but — curiously — no explosion

Rocky pillars dotting Iceland’s Skaelingar valley were projectiles tossed into the fields by warring trolls.That, at least, is the tale that University at…

New subduction zone may close Atlantic Ocean

But scientists haven't found direct evidence of the in-between phase — an ocean basin that was opening, starting instead to close — until now.Thanks to new…

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