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Experts controlling the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat mission are getting ready to start using the satellite for marine forecasting. This is made possible by the fact that its sensitive instruments can detect even tiny variations in wave height, even though it was built to measure sea ice thickness.
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23 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is determined to assist people involved in all aspects of exploiting the world's sea, and one way it could do so was the launch of the GlobWave Project. Its aim is to provide accurate forecasts on the states of the world's seas to anyone demanding it. Such forecasts have been... |
10 June 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Tsunamis are oftentimes produced when earthquakes strike beneath the sea. They are impressive waves that can leave behind a huge trail of devastation, as evidenced by the recent one that struck Japan. Experts now take a look at how these waves form and behave once they reach land. Their name means harbor wave in Japa... |
14 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Understanding the forming and the behavior of large amplitude waves could help scientists build efficient tsunami warning systems.Adrian Constantin, Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, is trying to prove scientifically, what every seaman knows: the shape of surface waves gives an idea... |
19 August 2010
10:48 GMT |
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The new case of a cruise ship getting battered by a large wave that came out of the blue again drew attention on rogue waves, a phenomenon that is fairly rare, but can have disastrous consequences. Although experts have agreed that the recent incident – which involved a cruise ship navigating through the Medite... |
6 March 2010
06:46 GMT |
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The world's oceans are still very mysterious places, in spite of the many study hours that were dedicated to discovering their secrets. Coastal areas are even more difficult to analyze, on account of the massive volume of interactions between the water, atmosphere and land. One of the phenomena that rose scienti... |
25 February 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Marine researchers at the University of California in San Diego's (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography propose in a new study that some of the collapse events that affected the Antarctic ice sheet in 2009 may have been triggered by extremely long oceanic waves. Lead scientists Peter Bromirski says that the... |
14 February 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Scientists from the US Air Force (USAF) Academy are currently working on a new method of making wave energy readily available for harvest. The technology will be able to exceed the current limitations that plague the industry, and could result in power plants that can better withstand the rigors of the sea, while at ... |
19 November 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Utah have recently announced the development of a new mathematical model, which could lead to the creation of a novel cloaking method. The research is not aimed at producing “invisibility cloaks” that absorb visible light, but rather at creating new means of making stealth ... |
17 August 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Analyzing the behavior of sea waves is notoriously hard to do, and requires a bit of creative thinking on the part of scientists to perform. But experts at the Geesthacht GKSS Research Center, in Germany, have recently devised a new system of doing just that, which relies on radar antennas for studying the surface of... |
13 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Freak waves are phenomena of nature difficult to explain even for oceanographers. They are essentially oceanic surface waves much larger than those around them. That is to say, they are larger than the mean height of the third waves in a wave group, which entails that they may not be the largest in the ocean per se. ... |
10 August 2009
20:31 GMT |
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UK-based enterprise Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd. is currently working on a new device meant to augment the electricity-producing abilities of wave-powered plants on shorelines, officials from the company have announced recently. The new instrument they've developed is an anaconda-shaped device, which is able to pick... |
6 May 2009
08:45 GMT |
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Although portions of the coastline where sea and ocean waves are strong enough to generate large amounts of electricity are readily available and very wide spread, harnessing the power of the waves is not as easy as it may seem at first. Corrosion due to the salt in the water damages even the most resistant materials... |
17 December 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Scientists have built a device that, if applied to larger scales, would allow ocean waves, even those as big as a tsunami, to travel through a large structure (an offshore platform or even an island) without the waves or the respective structure being altered at all.Invisibility doesn't just refer to light and v... |
30 September 2008
04:31 GMT |
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We are in the middle of a vivid debate regarding how the wireless technology could affect our health."In the long term - 10, 20 and 30 years out - we have a lot less information about potential effects from these types of wireless devices", warns Frank Barnes, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer ... |
22 January 2008
04:04 GMT |
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Let's not fool ourselves, invisibility cloaks have been built and they do exist; they don't work exactly as they should is another thing. However, Duke University researchers said they hadn't done enough to improve the technology and decided to test some acoustic invisibility devices before resuming th... |
18 January 2008
03:53 GMT |
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This is like a sci-fi movie ("Total Recall" is the first example that comes to my mind) scene becoming reality, making one of our naughty dreams come true! While our regular sun glasses help us take quick peeks at the hot girls around us without them even noticing it (or so we like to think), this new technology brea... |
5 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The wildest announcements are being made just 12 days before Halo 3 officially launches. According to blokes over at xboxusersgroup.com, the world's leading developer of professional audio signal processing tools, Waves, has revealed that Bungie's first-person shooter will be the first video game using "its... |
13 September 2007
03:57 GMT |
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This technique could turn Stephen Hawking into a hacker. The pressure waves in the ear induced by tongue movements could help paralyzed people interface with computers. This could help people experiencing quadriplegia due to spinal cord injuries (mainly because of car crash), about 6,000 new cases annually in US, but... |
3 August 2007
05:00 GMT |
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A new discovery in the field of nanotechnology could produce the smallest "engines" in the world. The best part is that scientists will be able to remotely control them using rays of UV light that make a group of bacteria push the nanomachines both in straight line and on curved trajectories.Researchers led by Min J... |
11 July 2007
09:12 GMT |
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A group of researchers came up with a new, and in the same time old, method of searching for gravitational waves, using a mathematical model that hadn't be used for some time, in the hope of studying and accurately identifying an exotic kind of these gravitational waves.The gravitational wave is a fluctuation i... |
19 June 2007
10:23 GMT |
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The brain is constantly working; even when we sleep, neural waves cross our brain, inducing fluctuating, unstable patterns. These waves make 98 % of the brain activity, but many consider them just background. A new research has come to explain their role and what the resting brain does. "Some people see the brain in ... |
5 June 2007
07:22 GMT |
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