Greater desertification control using sand trap simulations
A new simulation will help improve artificial sand-control measures designed to help combat desertification.
A new simulation will help improve artificial sand-control measures designed to help combat desertification.
General Physics
Sep 27, 2013
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The EU funded European research project FILOSE has developed robots with a new sense - lateral line sensing. All fish have this sensing organ but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater vehicles.
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2013
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As ocean waves pass from deeper water into the shallow coastal regions, they begin to break, churning up the surf zone waters. At the edges of the crests of the breaking waves, horizontally-rotating eddies (vertical vortices) ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Australia's plastic garbage has made its way into every ocean in the world. New research shows that it doesn't matter where in the world plastic garbage enters the ocean, it can end up in any of the five ocean ...
Environment
Jan 9, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A mathematician at the University of Glasgow is helping to find an answer to one of the last unsolved problems in classical mechanics.
General Physics
Nov 15, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A small, translucent sea slug called Clione antarctica swims through the cold waters near the polar regions by flapping its wings. At the same time, tiny cilia that circle the sea slug's body in three bands may ...
(Phys.org)—Researchers announced today that the results of a decade-long study has shown that the northern Mozambique Channel has the highest diversity of corals in the central, northern and western Indian Ocean. The researchers ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Giant currents that traverse the worlds oceans may not be as stable as previously thought after researchers found a branch of one of these global currents was powered and steered entirely by eddies, one ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first few days of life for a leatherback turtle are no easy walk on the beach.
Ecology
Mar 2, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues have discovered that massive, swirling ocean eddies -- known to be up to 500 kilometers across at the surface -- can reach ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2011
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