How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/24/07): Animals In Formalin
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View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/24/07): Animals In FormalinBiofuels: What Hole Do Plants Belong In?
The question is whether crops belong in your mouth or your gastank? Bioscience has a interesting article from June with National Geographic following on their…
View More Biofuels: What Hole Do Plants Belong In?Tardigrade Space Program
Tardigrades are a paradox. There are less than 1,000 species globally yet they can survive anything-temperature extremes, starvation, irradiation, dehydration, vacuums, and the pressures of…
View More Tardigrade Space ProgramSteamy Hot Sex In The Oceans
If the title doesn’t drive the Google hits in then hopefully word of mouth will. Sheril has the low down on this iconographic video of…
View More Steamy Hot Sex In The OceansOpen Up the Bubbly for SeaWiFS
SeaWiFS turns 10 this year. What is SeaWiFS? It is one of the most important advances of science in the last 20 years. The SeaWiFS…
View More Open Up the Bubbly for SeaWiFSField Rated Flash Drive
Corsair generously sent along their 8GB Survivor Flash Drive midsummer for me to field test at the behesting of this post. Over the last few…
View More Field Rated Flash DriveDeep-Sea Water Taste Test
Rick at Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunset recently reviewed Kona Deep awhile back and promised to send along a bottle to taste. Previously, I…
View More Deep-Sea Water Taste TestTemperature Not Pressure
Sunday evening the intelligent and lovely Sheril Kirshenbaum posited a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because…
View More Temperature Not PressureOne Less Variable I Have To Keep Track Of
Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP In 250 million years from now, my…
View More One Less Variable I Have To Keep Track OfLost years for sea turtles revealed
Researchers used stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen on old and new parts of the shells of 44 Bahaman green turtles (Chelonia mydas) to examine…
View More Lost years for sea turtles revealed