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In the Western Pacific around New Guinea, there’s a watery hill almost 250 feet high. This isn’t a hill on the ocean floor, it’s a hill in the ocean’s surface itself.
Scientists have known for some time that octopuses make use of shells and other objects they find to hide from predators.
One sea sponge was estimated to have lived 11,000 years.
We've all seen the devastation caused by hurricanes, whether on the news or first-hand. However there is even more damage that most people never hear about.
Firnification is when built-up snow changes from fluffy powder into ice pellets, and from ice pellets into layers of densely packed ice.
You’ve probably heard of the garbage patch found between California and Hawaii that is approximately the size of Texas. Myths swirl around it: the patch is so big it can be seen from space and it looks like an island. The trash is so dense—dumped furniture, barrels, wood—there are people living on it. All the […]
A few years ago, crab fisheries shut down because scientists detected unsafe levels of domoic acid in shellfish.
Warmer ocean periods are strongly related to blooms of algae that produce an unsafe neurotoxin.
Although submarines are sophisticated machines, their ability to rise and sink is based on the elementary principle of buoyant force.
Ever wonder how submarines rise and sink so quickly? Find out on today's Moment of Science!
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Oceans became saline hundreds of millions of years ago as rainfall mixed with sodium from the Earth's crust.
Europa is covered with ice that's cracked by tidal forces.
Could the frigid waters of Jupiter's moon Europa host alien life?
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