Oceanography
What Are Hydrothermal Vents?
Hydrothermal vents are places on the seafloor where seawater circulates through hot, chemically reactive ocean crust and returns to the ocean carrying dissolved minerals…
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Oceanography
What Is the Deep Sea?
The deep sea is the vast ocean environment below the sunlit surface layers, commonly including waters deeper than about 200 meters. It is cold, dark, under high pressure…
Environment
What Is Plate Tectonics?
Plate tectonics is the framework that explains the large-scale motion of Earth's rigid outer shell. The lithosphere is broken into plates that move over the weaker asthe…
Environment
How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are mathematical representations of the atmosphere, ocean, land, ice and the exchanges of energy and matter among them. They are built from physical laws…
Environment
What Is the Evidence for Climate Change?
Evidence for climate change comes from many independent measurements rather than one thermometer record. Surface stations, satellites, ocean instruments, ice observation…
Environment
How Do Hurricanes Form?
Hurricanes form over warm tropical oceans when the atmosphere and ocean supply a specific combination of heat, moisture, rotation and organized thunderstorms. In other r…
Oceanography
Extremely intelligent and adorable, Beluga whales also possess a unique ability that sends shivers down people's spines.
Beluga whales, also known as white whales, are one of the smallest whale species in the animal kingdom.
Space science
A 'second moon' made of gold appears in the heart of the Earth?
These massive structures, resembling two submerged continents rising from the Earth's core, have baffled scientists for years and may be ancient gold and platinum.
Discover science
Why can a small tugboat pull a ship 1,000 times larger?
The powerful propulsion system combined with the submerged hull design allows the tug to move giant ships.
Animal world
Mekong River Treasure: Extremely rare in the world, protected by police 24/7, related to 'ocean killer'
In the longest river in Southeast Asia (Mekong River), there is a creature known as
Discover science
Huge Block of Material Hidden Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean
Scientists know almost nothing about the origin and composition of two large continent-sized rock masses located on opposite sides of the Earth's inner mantle.
1001 mystery
Mysterious disc at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is the product of a prehistoric civilization or an alien spacecraft?
At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, there is a mysterious disk hidden, with a diameter of about 60 meters and a height of about 4 meters.
Oceanography
Antarctic shrimp eat 300 million tons every year but still not extinct
As of now, Antarctic shrimp are 'confident' that they won't be eaten.
Oceanography
Deepest fish species discovered, equivalent to being crushed by 1,600 elephants
Scientists have filmed a snailfish of the genus Pseudoliparis swimming at unprecedented depths in the ocean, 8,336m below the surface.
Oceanography
The Galapagos shark's quick, neat, and decisive hunt 'dyed' a corner of the ocean red
The Galapagos Marine Reserve is home to the largest population of sharks on Earth, so dramatic hunting scenes of these sharks often occur.