Collaborate Disseminate
A daredevil seabird species has learnt to harness the insane power of hurricanes, seeking out storms over the ocean to ‘ride’ them for their own benefit. It’s the first time this behavior has been observed, and now has scientists wondering if it’s far … Continue reading Thrill-seeking seabirds are now enthusiastically flying into hurricanes
The tracking of squid and other soft-bodied sea creatures may soon be a lot more doable, thanks to a new bioadhesive interface. It’s claimed to be much gentler than current attachment methods, while still remaining up to the task.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Soft n’ supple adhesive gel makes for gentler tracking of squids
Scientists have discovered that audio recordings of healthy coral reefs may help attract free-swimming coral larvae to damaged ones. The finding could be a major step toward preserving the world’s coral reefs, an estimated 25% of which have died out in… Continue reading Sounds appealing – reef recordings entice coral larvae to start building
Love it or hate it, but the way humans modify their speech when they communicate with their young offspring, commonly known as “baby talk,” has now been recorded among bottlenose dolphin mothers, too.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Aarh… Continue reading Dolphins also use baby talk to bond with young
In a much-needed win for the marine environment, a never-before-seen deep-sea reef featuring coral thousands of years old and “teeming with life” has been discovered in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Ga… Continue reading Stunning deep-sea reef “teeming with life” discovered and filmed in HD
In a much-needed win for the marine environment, a never-before-seen deep-sea reef featuring coral thousands of years old and “teeming with life” has been discovered in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Ga… Continue reading Stunning deep-sea reef “teeming with life” discovered and filmed in HD
In the same week that record-setting temperatures were logged in East Antarctica, satellite images have revealed the complete collapse of its Conger Ice shelf, a first for the region. The ice shelf isn’t all that big in the grand scheme of things, but … Continue reading East Antarctic heatwave coincides with unpredicted ice shelf collapse
As everyone knows, marine life near the surface of the ocean is much different than that which lives in the deeps. In order to get a better understanding of how those regions differ, scientists have created a biological probe that free-falls through th… Continue reading Plankton-seeking oceanographic probe plunges to the inky depths
The world’s oceans play an important role in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by absorbing billions of metric tons of it each year. A new study suggests we may have been greatly underestimating the effectiveness of this vast ca… Continue reading Study suggests the ocean is soaking up twice as much CO2 as we thought
Every time we think we’ve figured out the limits of where life can exist, we discover extremophile organisms thriving under conditions we’d previously ruled out. The latest example comes from studies of rock cores drilled from the floor of the Indian O… Continue reading Extremophile microbes found thriving half a mile beneath the seafloor