A major research aquarium able to simulate ocean warming and carry out key studies on the deadly crown-of-thorns starfish devastating the Great Barrier Reef opened in Australia on Thursday. …read more
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By Marissa Stempien You can’t get any more California cool than a bikini, sunglasses and ocean tussled hair. But while you can’t buy beach-ready tresses (although you can try) you can always toss on a pair of stylish shades to look like you’re hitting the seaside every day. …
A PhD student from the Department of Physics who recently returned from a trip to lay microphones on the ocean floor off the west coast of Canada is warning of the dangers to marine life from increased ocean noise. …read more
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Mariners and ocean recreationalists in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will benefit from new high-resolution wave forecasts offered by the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS). The new forecasts provide 7.5 days of predicted wave height, period and direction—updated twice per day. …read more
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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is shrouded in mystery. Scientists have long been intrigued by Jupiter’s fourth largest moon with its unmapped ocean and icy shell. …read more
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Dota 2 is an ocean-deep pool of rewarding nuance and strategy, but it will drown newcomers. …read more
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Thirty-seven-year-old Amy Stiner, of Machias, and 38-year-old Melissa Moyer, of Sunbury, Pa., were killed Tuesday night when they drove their car into the ocean after driving the wrong way down a road.
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Remote sensing of ocean color is a currently well-established science that provides information about water composition and the depth of light …read more
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They partly attribute the observed warming, and preceding cooling trends to ocean circulation changes induced by global greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols predominantly generated in the Northern Hemisphere from human activity. …read more
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In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, according to new iceberg calving simulations from the University of Michigan. …read more
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I have an Animal Crossing problem. I mean that both in the sense that I have a problem with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and that Animal Crossing: New Leaf has become a problem.
The latter point is something I feared, and it’s why I resisted the 3DS game for so long. I worried that, as I had with previous Animal Crossings, I’d fall into a desperate routine of improving my town and ignoring everything else. I’d base my weekend plans around in-game festivals and spend my lunch breaks hanging out with needy, friendly animal-people. It’s happening again.
New Leaf occupies my entire morning. Every day, I spend my morning commute collecting fossils, plucking pears from trees, fishing in the ocean, and smashing rocks. I enjoy it. The soothing music is relaxing. Animal Crossing is so laid-back it’s hard to feel anything other than a state of complete zen while making my morning money. My museum is starting to get really impressive. My expanded home is almost paid off. My first public works project is nearly complete. I’ve enacted the Night Owl ordnance, opened up new shops, and I have three new villagers who I find endearing.
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A unique field experiment being conducted off the coast of Portugal this week combines ocean robotics and marine biology in a complex aquatic dance. Researchers are using a fleet of robotic vehicles to track over a dozen Mola mola (ocean sunfish) as they forage across the coastal ocean. During this experiment, engineers and marine biologists are working together to test new techniques for tracking multiple animals in real time, collecting environmental data in the water around each animal, and controlling and coordinating a diverse group of robotic vehicles. Collaborators are also testing advanced capabilities for seafloor mapping and for search and rescue, in concert with local maritime authorities. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out to sea, fuelling fears of ocean contamination. …read more
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Cameron Diaz slipped into a bikini while shooting The Other Woman in the Bahamas on Friday. Her costars Kate Upton and Leslie Mann also sported sexy two-pieces for the fun, and the ladies celebrated a long day of filming by sipping cocktails and taking a dip in the ocean.
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It has been confirmed that the Apollo 11 engines have been found. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recovered unidentified space engines from the bottom of the ocean earlier this year, and it has now been officially confirmed that they belonged to Apollo 11. …read more
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Forty-four years (and three days) after it helped launch the first men to walk on the moon, a huge rocket engine part salvaged from the ocean floor has been positively identified as a historic component of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. …read more
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The work-life merge seems to be gasping for some air under the exponentially expanding ocean of technology. In Glassdoor’s third annual Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance, the jobs and career community found that 24/7 technology was making it “tougher to maintain a healthy work-life balance.” …read more
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He may not be Jacques Cousteau, but William Fenical from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is exploring the ocean in a whole new way. According to a paper published in Angewandte Chemie, his team recently unearthed a new chemical compound from the sea that may become an effective treatment against the potentially deadly bacteria anthrax and MRSA… …read more
In recent years, robotic underwater vehicles have become more common in a variety of industrial and civil sectors. They are used extensively by the scientific community to study the ocean. For example, underwater robots have been used to discover or study a number of deep sea animals and plants in their natural environment. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered a new chemical compound from an ocean microbe in a preliminary research finding that could one day set the stage for new treatments for anthrax and other ailments such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). …read more
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