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Deep-Sea Fish Have Independently Evolved The Same Gene Mutation To Deal With Crushing Pressure
It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...
James Bradley: “The ocean shapes the world”
On global capitalism and shipping as its engine, deep sea mining, the climate crisis and ‘Deep Water’, his work looks at how ...
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With deep-sea mining plans in limbo, Norwegian companies fold or dig in
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...
24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes
Check out 24 of the world’s must unusual landscapes — from the hellish Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan to the “snow ...
TheTravel on MSN3d
The Recent Deep-Sea "Monster" Sighting In Daylight Shook The Internet, But Another Was Spotted In The U.S.
Anglerfish is a species about which little is known. But, after a deceased one washed up on a West Coast beach, fascination ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
What’s the deal with those jellyfish-like creatures washing up on SLO County?
Though once thought to be siphonophores — colonies of specialized zooids — the velella velella is now classified as a single ...
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The Short And Easy Hike In Pennsylvania That’s Almost Too Beautiful To Be Real
The Alan Seeger Trail might be the most beautiful easy hike in Pennsylvania that doesn’t require you to train like you’re summiting Everest. And the best part? It’s been hiding in plain sight, waiting ...
Isro is sending ‘water bears’ to space with Axiom-4: But what makes them so special?
As India’s astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla heads to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission, he won’t be alone — a ...
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A surprising lesson from Antarctica: Life flourishes even under 500 feet of ice
In water as much as 4,200 feet deep the team from the Schmidt Ocean Institute found ... One of the mysteries of the discovery is what these sea creatures have been eating. Close to a mile down, with a ...
Scientists Found a Whole World of Invisible Creatures Beneath Earth’s ‘Living Skin’
Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...
IEEE12d
Optimizing Plastic Waste Collection in Water Bodies Using Heterogeneous Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Abstract: This letter presents a model-free deep reinforcement learning framework for informative path planning with heterogeneous fleets of autonomous surface vehicles to locate and collect plastic ...