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How far does light travel in the ocean?

The ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level. Although some sea creatures depend on light to live, others can do without it. Sunlight entering the water may travel about 1,000 ... read more

Can Tourism Save Madagascar Before It Destroys Itself?

Many children never go to school—either because it’s too far or too expensive for anyone beyond the eldest child—resulting in a 50 percent illiteracy rate. “Ironically, tourism may the salvation of ... read more

Why Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light?

The dead cores of two stars collided 130 million years ago in a galaxy somewhat far away ... the speed of light. We all know light obeys a speed limit — roughly 186,000 miles per second. Nothing ... read more

“I tried slow living in a remote Welsh cottage, and this is what I learned”

I know that ‘digital editor’ does not sound like the most stressful job in the world ... I send a billion disjointed WhatsApp messages to my sister (when a 15-minute phone call would be far more ... read more

NASA is testing a new submarine that will hunt for undiscovered sea life — and scientists eventually want it to look for aliens on Europa

Diving to the bottom of the ocean is arguably harder than rocketing into space ... Their goal is to create a drone submersible so small and so light that they will one day be able to shoot it into ... read more

Navigating the New Arctic

The ocean liner took me and my family across the Atlantic to visit relatives in New York. In those days, traveling by sea was as common as air travel is today ... camp and launch missions – all on sea ... read more

Orca AI Is Helping Ships Navigate Safely In Congested Waters

And these collisions do not usually happen in the middle of the ocean but near the port," said Yarden Gross ... The cameras are modified for the startup's specific use case, combining them with ... read more

Here's what Antarctica's calving glaciers look like up close

After a month of sailing the great Southern Ocean, during which there was a nine-day medical ... I think about how actions carried out so very far from this seemingly untouched landscape are likely ... read more

A surprising new picture of ocean circulation could have major consequences for climate science

That’s far too little ... east of Greenland, what does that say about the circulation’s vulnerability? The answer may involve where the growing volume of cold and fresh meltwater from Greenland — ... read more

The Story Of Aerosols: From Spray Can To Ocean Spray

These aerosol particles come from a bubble bursting at the ocean’s surface, from wave breaking. So many of us are used to seeing this when we go to the seashore. And these aerosol particles get into ... read more

The Mantis Shrimp Is the Ocean’s Coolest Predator

When you think about fearsome predators in the ocean ... colors and polarized light. Their eyes gather all this information and pass it on to the animal’s brain, so it can decide what to attack, when ... read more