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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation
of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals
-- in this case, fish.
The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique,...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract :
As robots designed to operate underwater become more common, it is useful to look at ways to make them more efficient. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) carry their power source with them, so improving the efficiency of the...
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Location: Miami, United States
Seawater is a complex, dynamic mixture of dissolved minerals, salts, and
organic materials that despite scientists best efforts, presents difficulties in
measuring its potential to contain and disperse energy. Like the water itself,
the...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: University Drive and Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ, United States
The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it.
Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so
thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, it would
freeze and boil at the...
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Location: UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, United States
We are ocean biologists and biogeochemists who use
NASA satellite data to study
the ocean's biosphere, its changes in time and how it is affected by and
responds to humankind's activities. Our...
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Location: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University,550 Stadium Mall Drive, United States
University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes
play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that transport heat and
maintain the climate of North America and Europe.These findings support a 2001...
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Location: Institute for Geophysics; J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196; 10100 Burnet Road (R2200); Austin TX 78758-4445
Phone: (512) 471-6156; FAX: (512) 471-8844, United States
Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote
Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX,
designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions
and potentially...
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