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Scientists find huge oil plumes deep in Gulf of Mexico: report

Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand

Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 8

Scientists discover a way to kill off tumors in cancer treatment breakthrough

Scientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than attacking tumours directly, prevents the growth of new blood vessels ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot Lost at Sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering deep-sea exploration robot -- one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships -- was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Plastic trash altering ocean habitats, study shows

A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Subseafloor observatories installed to run dynamic experiments

Marine geologists have returned from two months at sea off British Columbia, Canada, where they installed two observatories in the ocean floor to run innovative experiments at the bottom of the sea.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study finds plastic in nine percent of 'garbage patch' fishes

The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its infiltration ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Indian Ocean cocktail party leaves trail of party hats behind

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have unexpectedly found traces of the supercontinent Gondwana in the Indian Ocean - in the process solving a mystery behind a large group of ocean 'mountains' known as seamounts, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)

NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Gold rush on the Gulf: Researchers clamor for cash

(AP) -- Once a backwater in the world of oceanographic research, the Gulf of Mexico has suddenly become the site of a scientific gold rush, all because of the BP oil spill.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New deep-sea hot springs discovered in the Atlantic

Scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, on board the German research vessel Meteor have discovered a new ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Gulf oil spill could widen, worsen 'dead zone' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- While an out-of-control gusher deep in the Gulf of Mexico fouls beaches and chokes marshland habitat, another threat could be growing below the oil-slicked surface.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Volcano study lays foundations for ancient maps

Research into submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean will lay the groundwork for scientists to map the Earth as it was millions of years ago.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seismic survey at the Mariana trench will follow water dragged down into the Earth's mantle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, was cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

China sets sail for the Arctic

A Chinese research vessel and ice-breaker is due to set sail this week for the Arctic, a region much coveted by Beijing for its wealth of scientific data and natural resources.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 3