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Inaugural deployment of buoys to measure air and sea interactions in typhoons launched from Taiwan

The R/V Revelle, a Scripps research vessel departed from the port of Kao-hsiung, Taiwan with two tandem buoy sets onboard: the boat-shaped EASI (Extreme…

Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion

Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant supercontinent that constituted the Earth’s landmass before it broke up into the separate continents…

The Salp: Nature’s Near-Perfect Little Engine Just Got Better

Well, such an energy-efficient, self-propelling mechanism already exists in nature. The salp, a smallish, barrel-shaped organism that resembles a kind of…

Greenland Glacier Calves Huge Ice Island

“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate…

Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg

The Petermann glacier is one of the largest glaciers connecting the Greenland inland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean. Upon reaching the sea, a number of these…

Study shows that hitchhiking bacteria can go against the flow

A new study co-authored by professor Kam Tang of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that tiny aquatic organisms known as “water fleas” play an…

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