News tagged with deep oceans


Deep-sea rocks point to early oxygen on Earth

Deep-sea rocks point to early oxygen on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Red jasper cored from layers 3.46 billion years old suggests that not only did the oceans contain abundant oxygen then, but that the atmosphere was as oxygen rich as it is today, according to geologists.





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New study shows shallow water corals evolved from deep sea ancestors

Biology /

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research shows that the second most diverse group of hard corals first evolved in the deep sea, and not in shallow waters. Stylasterids, or lace corals, diversified in deep waters before launching at least three successful ...


King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World

Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ...


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Researchers trace octopuses' family tree

Biology /

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Many of the world's deep-sea octopuses evolved from species that lived in the Southern Ocean, according to new molecular evidence reported by researchers at Queen's University Belfast.


Deep sea pipelines to green gas production

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are working to tap into a wealth of natural gas resources located in distant, deep-ocean fields off the coast of Western Australia.


Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)

Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the ...


Scientists develop model to map continental margins

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet.


Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...


Ocean acidification: impact on key organisms of oceanic fauna

Ocean acidification: impact on key organisms of oceanic fauna

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In addition to global warming, carbon dioxide emissions cause another, less well-known but equally serious and worrying phenomenon: ocean acidification. Researchers in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie ...


Into the abyss: Deep-sixing carbon

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (21) | comments 2

Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, measuring up to 100 metres in radius ...



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