Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across ocean floors, earth’s system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet, from its…
Such an acoustic veil would do for sound what the “invisibility cloak” previously demonstrated by the research team does for microwaves–allowing sound waves…
The insect attacks the fronds and feeds on the palms' sap, excreting a honeydew on which sooty mould fungi develop. This is what causes the blackish colouring…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San DiegoAn unexpected discovery in marine biomedical laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San…
This striking pattern can be explained largely by the influence of a natural and cyclical wind circulation pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO),…
Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has been slow but continuous over most of the Earth’s history, but a new study from researchers at…