Cedar Point Girl Scouts troop builds ocean-litter sculpture with professional sculptor
Troop 2143 chose to focus on plastic litter in Carteret County waters and how to ‘upcycle’ them, rather than simply leaving ...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography15h
New Guide Seeks to Advance DNA Library of Marine Species
A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...
Science Daily16h
Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline
Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.
Exploring Titan's icy hydrocarbon cycle
Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the ...
The Harvard Crimson17h
From the Seafloor to Outer Space: Marine Microbiology in the Girguis Lab
Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography17h
Scientists Propose Network of Autonomous Vehicles to Observe Ocean Surface
A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...
Researchers warn of the overlap between offshore wind farms and areas of high biodiversity
A predictive model suggests that seabirds and marine mammals forage in the same areas where wind potential is most ...
Ocean mixing intensifies central Pacific ENSO via diabatic heating, study reveals
The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most influential interannual climate phenomena in the global ...
ZME Science21h
Evolution just keeps creating the same deep-ocean mutation
A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...