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2021-11-23 12:00:00 |
Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean (lien direct) |
The size of undersea creatures seemed to follow a strange but stable pattern-until industrial fishing came along. |
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2021-10-26 11:00:00 |
This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean (lien direct) |
It's a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas-and climate change-like never before. |
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2021-10-06 12:00:00 |
Astronomers Get Ready to Probe Europa\'s Hidden Ocean for Life (lien direct) |
Jupiter's most enigmatic moon, one of a few ocean worlds in the solar system, will be the target of upcoming missions by NASA and the European Space Agency. |
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2021-07-13 10:00:00 |
A Son Is Rescued at Sea. But What Happened to His Mother? (lien direct) |
Nathan Carman went fishing with his mom. A week later, he was found on a life raft-alone. Tragic accident or murder? Ocean sensors may point to the truth. |
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2021-06-16 18:00:00 |
This Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean\'s \'Twilight Zone\' (lien direct) |
Mesobot looks like a giant AirPods case, but it's in fact a sophisticated machine that tracks animals making the most epic migration on Earth. |
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2021-05-15 11:00:00 |
The Wondrous, Tedious Ocean of Subnautica: Below Zero (lien direct) |
The game is, for the most part, a sublime seafaring sequel. Too bad it often feels like a grind. |
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2021-05-13 19:00:20 |
Watch Us Roam Virtual Deep Seas With Real Oceanographers (lien direct) |
WIRED will be playing Subnautica: Below Zero and talking about ocean-and space-exploration with scientists from NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. |
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2021-05-06 15:00:00 |
Sharks Use the Earth\'s Magnetic Field Like a Compass (lien direct) |
Biologists have long believed that these animals rely on magnetic sensing to migrate across oceans. Someone finally figured out how to prove it. |
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2021-04-14 12:00:00 |
Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals? (lien direct) |
Mining companies and marine scientists want to know whether harvesting blobs of useful materials from the seafloor harms ocean life. |
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2021-03-20 12:00:00 |
Where Are Those Shoes You Ordered? Check the Ocean Floor (lien direct) |
More containers have fallen off ships in the past four months than are typically lost in a year. Blame heavy traffic and rolling waves. |
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2021-03-12 13:00:00 |
Ocean Acidification Could Make Tiny Fish Lose Their Hearing (lien direct) |
Their inner ears turn wonky when they grow up in carbon-rich water, which could keep juveniles from finding their way to the reefs. That could mean trouble. |
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2021-01-18 13:00:00 |
The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage (lien direct) |
The robo-vessel will map the ocean floor, and its solar-powered sensors will sample fish DNA and collect climate data. |
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2021-01-12 16:00:00 |
The Arctic Ocean Is Teeming With Microfibers From Clothes (lien direct) |
Scientists find an average of 40 microplastic particles per cubic meter of the northern water. The likely source? The synthetic clothing in our washing machines. |
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2021-01-11 13:00:00 |
The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations (lien direct) |
A lot of thermal energy is trapped in the ocean. An ex-NASA researcher has figured out how it might generate unlimited clean power for aquatic robots. |
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2020-12-21 17:04:00 |
The Oldest Crewed Deep Sea Submarine Just Got a Big Makeover (lien direct) |
The 60-year-old sub is preparing to take its deepest plunge yet. But in the age of autonomous machines, why are humans exploring the ocean floor at all? |
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2020-12-08 12:00:00 |
Friends, Fleetwood Mac, and the Viral Comfort of Nostalgia (lien direct) |
If there's one thing that brings people together now, it's old shows, old songs, and drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice to a 1977 hit. |
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2020-12-02 19:00:00 |
The Journey of Electronic Bottles and the Ocean Plastic Crisis (lien direct) |
Researchers loaded containers with trackers and released them in the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, giving new insight into how plastic pollution travels. |
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2020-10-29 15:00:00 |
How Octopuses Use Their Suction Cups to Taste Through Touch (lien direct) |
A new study reveals that the invertebrates use a novel kind of receptor embedded in their suckers to explore their ocean habitats. |
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2020-10-27 12:00:00 |
These Oceanographers Want to Turn Marine Slime Into Drugs (lien direct) |
A California team will use a robotic vehicle to study tiny seafloor creatures, hoping they might yield new compounds to fight viruses and cancer. |
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2020-09-02 12:00:00 |
Your Beloved Blue Jeans Are Polluting the Ocean-Big Time (lien direct) |
When you wash denim, tiny fibers shed and flow into the environment. Scientists just found that Arctic waters are now loaded with little bits of jeans. |
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2020-09-01 11:00:00 |
Can a Bubble Net Stop a Hurricane? Some Norwegians Think So (lien direct) |
An idea to use underwater bubbles to cool oceans and deflate oncoming storms is the latest in a series of far-out schemes for controlling the weather. |
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2020-08-18 17:46:29 |
Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic? (lien direct) |
Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even counting microfibers. |
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2020-05-12 18:00:00 |
That Fresh Sea Breeze You Breathe May Be Laced With Microplastic (lien direct) |
Researchers have discovered that the ocean is burping tiny plastic particles, which then blow onto land-and potentially into your lungs. |
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2020-04-07 13:00:00 |
How to Escape From a Sunken Submarine (lien direct) |
First of all, you can't just open the hatch when you're trapped at the bottom of the ocean. But there is a way out-it requires physics and some audacity. |
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2020-03-22 12:00:00 |
An Ancient Magma Flood Offers Clues About Global Warming (lien direct) |
4 million years ago, a burst of hot rock heated the planet, causing ocean acidification, massive storms, and extinctions. What can we learn from this early example? |
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2020-03-07 13:00:00 |
Dolphins Are Still Accidental Casualties of Tuna Fishing (lien direct) |
A new study estimates that about 80,000 cetaceans are swept up every year by tuna-fishing nets in the Indian Ocean. |
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2020-02-21 13:00:00 |
\'Environmental DNA\' Lets Scientists Probe Underwater Life (lien direct) |
With the help of a new kind of drone, marine biologists can sequence DNA found in the ocean to reveal what's living in an ecosystem-and what's missing. |
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2020-02-18 13:00:00 |
The Atlantic Ocean\'s \'Conveyor Belt\' Stirs Up a Science Fight (lien direct) |
Researchers are debating the best way to monitor the ocean currents that sweep through the Labrador Sea-and may foretell the planet's climate future. |
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2020-01-10 13:00:00 |
Gadget Lab Podcast: Wrapping Up CES 2020 (lien direct) |
The hosts look back at a show filled with fake-meat sliders, AI everything, and an ocean of electric scooters. |
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2019-11-28 19:00:00 |
Scientists Spot an Undersea Fault Using Fiber-Optic Cables (lien direct) |
Unused telecom cables, known as dark fiber, could help scientists finally map the ocean floor and discover new earthquake hot spots. |
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2019-11-11 20:00:00 |
Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten (lien direct) |
Fish larvae off the coast of Hawaii are mistaking tiny pieces of plastic for prey, an alarming finding with big implications for the oceanic food web. |
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2019-10-26 18:45:00 |
Ocean Cleanup\'s New Plastic-Catcher … Kinda Already Exists? (lien direct) |
The anti-plastic crusaders have another plan to keep junk from reaching the sea: trash-eating barges in rivers. |
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2019-10-04 12:00:00 |
Hurricanes May Be Reshaping Big Parts of the Ocean (lien direct) |
Scientists are just starting to tease out the long-distance changes hurricanes inflict on coastlines and the deep ocean alike. |
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2019-09-25 09:00:00 |
We\'re Killing the Oceans, and We\'ll Pay Dearly for It (lien direct) |
Depending on whom you ask, the IPCC's latest report is either startling, depressing, or dire-or more likely a combination of all three. |
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2019-09-23 11:00:00 |
Cleaner Ships May Mean More Expensive Holidays (lien direct) |
New rules designed to reduce sulfur pollution from ocean-going ships will increase demand for low-sulfur fuel, boosting the cost of some imported goods. |
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2019-09-12 15:00:00 |
The Riddle, and Controversy, of All That Missing Plastic (lien direct) |
The contentious Ocean Cleanup campaign has an idea where marine plastic ends up. But it's already stirring debate. |
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2019-07-10 12:00:00 |
Little Plastic \'Nurdles\' Are Flooding Beaches and Waterways (lien direct) |
These lentil-sized pellets are used to make nearly all plastic goods. But they often escape and end up polluting oceans and coastal communities. |
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2019-07-05 12:00:00 |
Forget the Moon-We Should Go to Jupiter\'s Idyllic Europa (lien direct) |
NASA's Europa mission is struggling, but scientists are keeping the dream alive with exotic approaches to sampling that moon and its mysterious ocean. |
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2019-06-25 18:45:03 |
Fitted With Sensors, Antarctic Seals Track Water Temperatures (lien direct) |
Scientists have outfitted an army of Antarctic pinnipeds with trackers to monitor warming oceans. |
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2019-06-02 05:58:04 |
Gadget Lab Podcast: An Interview With Firewire Surfboards CEO Mark Price (lien direct) |
Listen to an interview with our guest Mark Price about how to make a surfboard without ruining the ocean. |
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2019-05-22 17:00:00 |
Scientists Go Back in Time to Find More Troubling News About Earth\'s Oceans (lien direct) |
A clever study finds communities of foraminifera, a hard-shelled kind of plankton, have transformed dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. |
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2019-05-17 15:00:00 |
Now Ocean Plastics Could Be Killing Oxygen-Making Bacteria (lien direct) |
The toxins that plastics leach into seawater severely affect the bacteria that provides perhaps 20 percent of Earth's oxygen. That's when things get complicated... |
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2019-04-28 12:00:00 |
Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses (lien direct) |
Far more viruses appear to populate the seas than was previously thought, a discovery that could help clarify viruses' role in the global carbon cycle. |
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2019-04-26 14:00:00 |
Exquisite Underwater Photos to Make You Love the Ocean (lien direct) |
Christian Vizl gets up close with sharks, sea lions and more. |
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2019-04-05 15:08:01 |
Sea Levels Are Rising. Time to Build ... Floating Cities? (lien direct) |
If climate change ends up coming for your home, you could move inland. Or you could decamp to tessellated platforms floating on the ocean. |
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2019-03-07 13:00:00 |
Oceans Are \'Spiking a Fever\' With Record Heat Waves (lien direct) |
More frequent and severe ocean heat waves are behaving like wildfires, wiping out sea life across large areas. |
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2019-02-20 12:00:00 |
Boaty McBoatface Gears Up for Epic Swim Across the Arctic (lien direct) |
The probe with the famous name may soon have a new claim to fame, by crossing the Arctic Ocean on the longest underwater robot journey yet. |
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2019-01-09 13:00:00 |
Ocean Cleanup\'s Plastic Catcher Is Busted. So What Now? (lien direct) |
First, the 600-meter-long plastic catcher didn't catch plastic. Then it split in two. What is the right way, then, to cleanse our oceans of the plastic menace? |
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2018-12-20 12:00:00 |
A SpaceX Booster Went for a Swim and Came Back as Scrap Metal (lien direct) |
The space company spent several days retrieving and inspecting a rocket booster that made an unplanned ocean landing. Now it appears to be toast. |
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2018-11-01 16:04:03 |
The Sea May Be Absorbing Way More Heat Than We Thought (lien direct) |
Scientists have developed a radical new method for measuring global warming-induced rising ocean temperatures: They aren't sampling water, but air. |
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