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A British aeronautical engineer, who by all accounts had too much time on his hands, discovered what could be the most important finding of the last centuries – namely, a portion of ocean floor that could be the lost city of Atlantis. He made the discovery while checking out images provided by Google Earth 5.0,... |
21 February 2009
04:42 GMT |
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In order to meet the ever increasing needs of its users, Google Earth's functionality has been enhanced with new features, among which the Ocean in Google Earth is the most important. The innovation that version 5.0 of the popular application brings will allow users to virtually dive beneath the water surface, e... |
4 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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The thought of a cold ocean covered by an extremely thick crust of ice (some scientific theories even estimate it to measure over 100 km in thickness) doesn't really do much for the idea of the moon's supporting even the most elementary forms of life. But a new study suggests that the premises of this theor... |
11 December 2008
13:39 GMT |
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At some point, 5 billion years from now, the Sun will begin to swell and will slowly engulf the first planets in its vicinity, including our own. But life would have been obliterated long before this process actually occurred. Still, this is not necessarily a scary scenario, since while scorching our planet, the Sun ... |
11 December 2008
06:29 GMT |
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A new study on the evolution of life as related to the diversity or scarceness of some chemical compounds in the oceans may shed new light on the steps to follow in the attempt to investigate the possible presence of life in the oceans of alien worlds. Life is not restricted to water, though; instead, it involves a b... |
10 December 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Modern vision perceives asteroids more as a threat than as anything else. Plans are being made to track the movements of near-Earth objects, to detect those that may be on collision courses with our planet and to intercept those that might prove hazardous. But it hasn't always been so, shows a recent experiment,... |
9 December 2008
03:57 GMT |
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A team of technicians, led by Clayton Jones, has developed a triad of gliding robotic devices called Deep Slocum that would prove to be an essential tool in the task of exploring and monitoring the oceanic waters, providing a better insight on its characteristics. The gliders, called Ammonite, Bellamite and Coprolite... |
27 November 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The data collected by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) device installed aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey probe helped the international group of experts who analyzed it reach the conclusion that the red planet may have been covered by an ocean in a proportion of about 33%. This result sheds new light on the decades l... |
20 November 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Contrary to what most of us may believe, scientific studies indicate that Ice Ages are not a rare phenomenon occurring every now and then for more or less long periods of time. Instead, the interglacial periods, the short spells between long, freezing epochs, are the real intruders. In other words, the tiny geologica... |
13 November 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ... |
11 November 2008
09:24 GMT |
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We have recently written a piece on the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) device that NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson threw overboard on July 23rd, 2007. Although it was not a small object, no official announcement was made so as to warn the public of the danger it might pose upon entering the atmosphere, possibly becaus... |
5 November 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Plastic, the worst kind of thrash, doesn't affect only people, as the latest research indicated, but it also has an impact on oceans and on their ecosystems, to a greater extent than one would imagine. In fact, large portions of the oceans are becoming synthetic, from all the slowly decomposing plastic items th... |
5 November 2008
09:19 GMT |
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The Switzerland-based underwater explorer and scientist who still holds the world record for the deepest dive passed away on Saturday at his residence near Lake Geneva, at the age of 86, as stated in an official release of his son's company, Solar Impulse. He worked for NASA after he performed the dive in the M... |
3 November 2008
08:52 GMT |
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With the risk of sounding grim, if you ever thought of an alternative, more interesting burial instead of the regular one, guess what, some companies did too. And we're not talking about launching the remains into space or compressing the ashes into a diamond but, in fact, about a kind that could actually a... |
28 October 2008
02:49 GMT |
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Recently, about 370 penguins that mysteriously got cast adrift on northeastern Brazil's equatorial beaches have been carried back to their originating places on a Brazilian southern beach. According to a statement of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the young Magellanic were flown and release... |
8 October 2008
08:17 GMT |
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Researchers discovered that the oceans hide a small number of brine-water lakes and rivers on their floor, especially in the Gulf of Mexico region. These in turn house their own variety of life, adapted to and relying on their saline features. Thinking of what lurks beneath the ocean waves, very few people, if a... |
26 September 2008
06:53 GMT |
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In an attempt to address the downfall of the planetary ocean, as well as in order to provide a live learning place for scholars or for curious people, the Smithsonian museum will house the Sant Ocean Hall, a place where both living and fossil specimens from the depths of the oceans are exposed. The deepest leve... |
25 September 2008
04:52 GMT |
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As of late, the levels of noise in the planet's oceans reached incredible levels and it doubles every decade, which affects marine mammals' breeding and feeding habits in a negative way. The relatively new sources of noise, such as ships, oil platforms (which generate seismic blasts), low-frequency son... |
24 September 2008
08:09 GMT |
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A black smoker hydrothermal vent, measuring some 12 meters in height and ejecting water reaching temperatures of more than 200 degrees Celsius into the icy oceanic waters inside the Arctic Circle, was found by researchers more than 192 kilometers north of other known vents, making it the farther north such geological... |
25 July 2008
04:58 GMT |
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The mass extinction of the marine life nearly 93 million years ago would have been most likely determined by the lack of oxygen in the oceanic waters as an intense underwater volcanic activity was triggered, says a study co-authored by Steven Turgeon of the University of Alberta. For a long time volcanism was thought... |
17 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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For the last two centuries or so people have been continuously emitting large quantities of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, a careless action currently considered the number one factor triggering the global warming phenomenon. The burning of fossil fuels isn't going to stop any time soon, which is l... |
16 July 2008
05:45 GMT |
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The newly discovered object, dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, is a terrestrial planet roughly three times as heavy as Earth orbiting a star called MOA-2007-BLG-192L located about 3,000 light years away from us. The finding also marks the discovery of the smallest star to have a planet orbiting around it, since it only weig... |
3 June 2008
03:32 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Goog... |
6 May 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Ten years ago, researchers discovered that Earth gives off a constant humming sound, basically imperceptible to the human ear which cannot hear sounds with a frequency below 16 Hertz, and called it the Earth's hum. The sound continues to make itself heard to seismometers even when there is no seismic activity in... |
17 April 2008
08:08 GMT |
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It is global warming at a smaller scale. When El Niño begins, the deserts of the Peruvian coasts are turned to lakes, but great floods, violent cyclones, severe droughts and harsh winters occur worldwide, triggering hunger, epidemics, huge wildfires, and damages on crops, goods and environment. The most affected zone... |
7 April 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Opera, together with Helio, has just announced the first deployment of Opera Mini on a mobile service provider in the United States. As of today, Helio members can surf the Web with Opera Mini on their Ocean smartphone with a specially-tailored version of the browser designed specifically for the handset. Available a... |
21 March 2008
06:54 GMT |
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In the local Nama language, "Namib" means vast. Vastness, besides its age (20 million years), and the amount of precipitations (50 ml per year) define the Namib Desert (southwestern Africa). It stretches on a land stripe about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) long and 100-160 km (60-100 mi) wide, representing the coastal plain of... |
18 March 2008
09:53 GMT |
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What is now a massive ball of ice around Saturn, the moon Tethys had an ocean at some point in its past, say researchers at the University of California present at a major science conference in Houston. Tethys is only one of the 60 or so natural satellites orbiting around Saturn, has a medium size and an average dens... |
15 March 2008
08:12 GMT |
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In the outcome of previous observations showing that Saturn's moon Enceladus ejects matter out of the geysers on its surface, the Cassini spacecraft executed, on Wednesday, a fly-by through the water ice plume hovering above it. During the swing, Cassini took numerous pictures of the surface of the moon and made... |
14 March 2008
05:42 GMT |
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We are looking for new worlds on other planets, and we don't even know the worlds hosted by our own. A large array of giant mysterious creatures have been found by a recent two-month expedition in the freezing waters of Antarctica, including huge sea spiders and worms. The new specimens have been found inhabitin... |
21 February 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The longest migration previously known was that of the Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), which nests in the Arctic zone, in the tundra region, and winters in the Antarctica (when there is the Austral summer). Due to this 19,000 km (12,000 mi) journey, the bird sees two summers annually and more daylight than any other... |
30 January 2008
05:47 GMT |
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1. The shore seems to be the edge of the continent, but that's not true: the continents continue under the sea, on a strip edging each continent, and called continental shelf. How much of the continental shelf is covered by the sea depends on how much ice is stocked in the Polar Ice. 2. Around 10,000 years ago, ... |
28 January 2008
08:33 GMT |
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1. Ocean life can go from the surface down to... 2.5 km (1.5 mi) under the ocean floor. That's the place where living bacteria were found! 2. At a depth of 5 m (16 ft), 50 % of the solar light is already absorbed. At a depth of 25 m (83 ft), just 3 % of the sunlight penetrates. 3. The base of the food chain is t... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the '60s, when the proofs came from the ocean. Earth's external layer is called lithosphere. It is a rigid blanket with a thickness of about 100 km (62 mi). It includes both the oceanic platform and the continental crust, but also the u... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. You may believe that Mount Everest is the tallest in the world, with its 8,848 m (29,450 ft) in altitude. Yet, it was proven that the volcano Mauna Loa from Hawaii is taller by 2,300 m (7,660 ft), if we measure it from its base on the bottom of the ocean. 2. The mapping of the oceanic bottom revealed oceans are ex... |
18 January 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Methane gas escapes from ocean floor fossil deposits at a rate of about two hundred or more cubic meters every day, which poses some environmental concerns, as the methane gas is a greenhouse gas, which causes a global warming effect 23 times more accentuated than carbon dioxide would, during a century. About half of... |
21 December 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, is the only cosmic body in the solar system that might have an ocean of liquid water under its frozen surface, except for Earth. This represents a great opportunity for astrobiologists who believe that in the ocean life might be present, as diverse as in the oceans on Earth. H... |
14 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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Global warming has been in the scientists' attention for some time now. It was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, from studies that showed that the average temperature of the soil was rising. The greenhouse effect that is thought to trigger global warming takes its name from the Greenhouse, as a to... |
3 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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If we pay huge prices for perfumes coming from the anal glands of the musk deer and civet cat and coffee coming from the dung of civet cat, why should we be surprised by the fact that one the most expensive perfumes is actually vomit?Ambergris comes from the intestines of the sperm whales. It is actually a biliary se... |
6 October 2007
13:02 GMT |
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It has been found that the frozen ocean of the North (for how long could it be still named so?) has its origins in ... a lake. 20 million years ago, what is now the Arctic Ocean was just a very large lake, whose fresh water flew southwards through a narrow strait into the Atlantic.But 18.2 million years ago, the tect... |
22 June 2007
09:19 GMT |
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The kapok tree is going to solve a mystery that has puzzled the biologists for a long time: the similarity between African and South American rainforests.The two continents split 130 millions years ago; still, their forests are too similar, and it seems that 96 million years ago, they were still exchanging flora.A te... |
18 June 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Mars is a frigid desert and has a thin atmosphere and surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. This week, a team of scientists discovered the most compelling evidence of liquid water on Mars. What happened to the lost oceans ... |
14 June 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Are you getting tired of the same old view when you look out the windows of your apartment, or you just feel the need for a change in your life? No problem!Soon, with the push of a button you will be able to rotate your entire floor so that your apartment will get on another side of the building. This could be very ... |
23 May 2007
11:37 GMT |
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Scientists put great hopes on the Ocean to ease the effects of dumping too much global warming producing carbon dioxide (CO2), by absorbing and storing it at great depths. These carbon sinks are crucial coping with the excess of CO2 from the atmosphere, as they slow down the greenhouse effect.This effect had been pre... |
18 May 2007
03:40 GMT |
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The waters of the Southern Ocean are cold, remote and difficult to study, posing many questions, still unanswered. A team led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has solved one issue: the researchers studied the ocean circulation in the current that flows around Antarctica by ... |
11 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Helio has recently introduced their latest handset, the Ocean, a 3G media and content powerhorse that delivers an interesting and convenient form factor as well as an impressive set of features. According to Helio, the Ocean was designed to become the ultimate social networking tool and can easily be used for instant... |
26 March 2007
06:46 GMT |
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