Tar balls wash ashore on Florida beaches, but the source of the sticky black goo is a mystery
The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend. So far, the ...
3.5 kilometres underwater, scientists found a staggeringly energetic particle from outer space
In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...
A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters
A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.
Symbiotic bacteria ride along with single-celled protists in ocean's upper layer
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...
Most energetic ‘ghost particle’ from space detected in the deep ocean
A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.
‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea
The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...
A deep-sea neutrino telescope spots the most energetic ghost particle yet
NEW YORK (AP) — A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, ...
Scientists detect a mysterious messenger from the cosmos
Undersea detectors anchored deep in the Mediterranean Sea found an ultra-high-energy neutrino, a particle that opens a new window onto the cosmos.
Most energetic neutrino yet seen smashes through seafloor detector
For context, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, accelerates protons to an energy of 7 Tera-electronVolts (TeV). The neutrino that was detected had an energy of ...
Vacation destination closes beaches over gross ‘tar balls’ as cause remains a mystery: ‘Thought it was a sea creature’
Several Florida beaches closed Saturday after mysterious tar balls washed up on the shoreline — and now the US Coast Guard is ...
Trump Promises Executive Order Against Paper Straws: 'BACK TO PLASTIC!'
President Donald Trump’s campaign previously sold Trump-branded plastic straws with the message, “Liberal paper straws don't ...
Enceladus study shows the physics of alien oceans could hide signs of life from spacecraft
Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...