Early on in school, we are told that the shortest distance between two points is a line. There are some cases though, where this is not true, and navigating underwater is one of them. A team of experts at MIT announces the creation of an algorithm that provides efficient transportation routes underwater.
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9 March 2012
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Scientists working on the West Coast of the United States have recently set up a new radio antenna system, whose purpose is to investigate the way oceanic currents influence waters in the area. The grid consists of 78 transmitters, each of which is capable of sending a radio pulse in the waters. The new data will hel... |
21 June 2011
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In a new study, experts found massive currents of water affecting the coasts of Brazil, in South America. The formations, resembling giant Frisbees as seen from satellite, are produced by the interactions of larger, already-known currents passing through the area.
According to experts, these disks of water influe... |
2 April 2011
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According to new scientific evidence, it would appear that it was possible for ancient creatures called pterosaurs to fly for up to 10,000 miles without stop, many million years before jet flight was invented. These animals were the rulers of the sky before the K-T extinction. The event took place some 65 million yea... |
13 October 2010
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A new image acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows phytoplankton blooming in the Barents Sea.The image was taken August 31 and it show the brightest shades of turquoise, navy, teal and green shrouding the sea waters, just like an ever changing abstra... |
4 September 2010
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One of the things that are very true about crocodiles – but which seem counterintuitive at first glance – is the fact that they are relatively poor swimmers, especially over large distances. Therefore, it has always been a mystery to biologists and other researchers how the animals manage to cross large s... |
4 June 2010
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In an area lying about 3,000 kilometers southwest of Australia, researchers find the eastern edge of the Kerguelen Plateau. This 2,200-kilometer-long rise is the scaffold for one of the most mysterious and fast oceanic currents in the world, which carries millions of metric cubes of cold water from Antarctica northwa... |
26 April 2010
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Some of the massive stars in the Universe are destined for great things after they reach the end of their burning cycles. Rather that fizzling out and turning into a white dwarf, or collapsing into a massive black hole, they convert their core into a fast-spinning type of structure called a neutron star. These object... |
19 January 2010
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The idea that electric “continuous currents” flowed inside small metal rings indefinitely was proposed since the earliest days of quantum physics, in the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was stated that the currents were small, but that they flowed through the rings indefinitely, regardless of whether or ... |
9 October 2009
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More than 400 years ago, a debate started in the scientific community, which was seeking to uncover the answer to the question “What generated our planet's magnetic field and magnetosphere?.” The latter is the only thing that prevents all life on Earth from being annihilated in an instant, due to mas... |
25 June 2009
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A team of experts from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Duke University, in the United States, has managed to place another piece in the puzzle that is our planet's Great Conveyor Belt. Originally meant as an oversimplification of the actual processes that take place, the concept of Convey... |
14 May 2009
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