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A photo of a statue of a dinosaur-like creature next to city buildings.
Posted inNews

Godzilla Gets a Forever Home on the Ocean Floor

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 31 March 202331 March 2023

The world’s largest oceanic core complex is named after the reptilian monster from Japanese science fiction. Parts of the seabed feature were recently christened with the beast’s anatomy.

Black hills covered in snow in front of a deep blue sea and tall white mountains.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Deeper Dive into Wintry, Carbon-Absorbing Antarctic Waters

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 8 March 20238 March 2023

Cold surface water in the Southern Ocean is a critical component in ocean carbon uptake. A new study profiles it using state-of-the-art research techniques.

Several people sit and stand around a large map of the seafloor on a table in laboratory space.
Posted inScience Updates

Observing a Seismic Cycle at Sea

by Margaret Boettcher, Emily Roland, Jessica Warren, Robert Evans and John Collins 7 March 20237 March 2023

Scientists organized a trio of expeditions to document the buildup of stress leading to a large earthquake on a seafloor fault, developing innovations for successful seagoing research in the process.

Satellite image of cloud systems in the North Pacific
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Landfall Temperature of Atmospheric Rivers on the US West Coast

by Minghua Zhang 3 March 202323 February 2023

Atmospheric rivers that start in warm areas of the North Pacific generally stay warm, leading to warmer landfall temperatures in the western United States.

Diagram showing the proposed mechanism of the weakening of the Ryukyu Current.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Weakened Kuroshio Slows Down the Ryukyu Current

by Takeyoshi Nagai 2 March 202323 February 2023

A combination of the weakened Kuroshio in the Tokara Strait and an increase in anticyclonic eddies led to the slowdown of the Ryukyu Current from 1993 to 2018.

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The Bering Land Bridge Formed Much Later Than Previously Thought

by Clara Chaisson 28 February 202328 February 2023

New research reconstructs the Bering Strait’s flooding history, raising surprising questions about human migration and how ice sheets form.

一个穿着潜水衣的人涉水穿过水下的樽海鞘群。
Posted inResearch Spotlights

喷气推进的被囊动物在海洋碳循环中的作用

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 17 February 202322 February 2023

新研究表明,广泛分布的胶质浮游动物的大量繁殖,连同它们的粪便、每日的垂直迁移和它们的尸体一起,增加了海洋的碳输出。

Aerial photo of blue water dotted with tall, green islands
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Some Corals Are More Heat Resistant Than Thought

by Nathaniel Scharping 6 February 202321 February 2023

The vast genetic diversity of corals means there are some that may survive warming waters. Now scientists just need to find them.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Jet-Propelled Tunicates Pump Carbon Through the Oceans

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 19 January 202317 February 2023

New research reveals that blooms of the widespread gelatinous zooplankton—along with their feces, daily vertical migrations, and carcasses—increase marine carbon export.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Differential Evolution of the Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zones

by Nicolas Gruber 29 December 202229 December 2022

The latest generation of Earth System models simulate an expansion of the oxygen minimum zones in the Pacific, but their inner core, where oxygen levels drop to near zero, contracts in the future.

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