Research by Charles Darwin University has changed what was known about the charismatic nectar-loving sugar glider, finding that they are at more risk than ever, particularly after the recent bushfires devastating south-eastern ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 17, 2020
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For 18 days, an underwater robot dived and surfaced and dived and surfaced—some 402 times in all—listening to the ocean's depths as it traveled hundreds of miles along the continental shelf off the Washington and Oregon ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2019
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At a time when ocean noise is receiving increased global attention, researchers at Oregon State University and NOAA have developed an effective method to use an underwater robotic glider to measure sound levels over broad ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2019
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"Call! Just call!" I think loudly in my head. "Did something happen? Are you okay?"
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2019
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A small group of scientists and doctoral students from the University of California, Davis, recently returned from Antarctica, where they became the first group to collect turbulence measurements from an underwater glider ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2019
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Oceanographers and engineers at the University of California San Diego collaborated to modify a common physical oceanography instrument to be able to image zooplankton as it glides through the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2019
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Scientists at ANU have found a chronic shortage of females in a critically endangered parrot species has led to love triangles, sneaky sex on the side, increased fighting between males and fewer babies.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2018
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Birds have long inspired humans to create their own ways to fly. We know that soaring bird species that migrate long distances use thermal updrafts to stay in the air without using up energy flapping their wings. And glider ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2018
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Huge systems of rotating water masses—called gyres—form in oceans and large lakes. Two EPFL laboratories, working with the University of California, Davis, are using an underwater glider to explore one such gyre in Lake ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2018
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The Southern Ocean is key to Earth's climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are important to ocean physics make it perilous for oceanographers.
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2017
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