News tagged with submarine
Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot ...
Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...
A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...
NIU will use robotic submarine to explore melting occurring below Antarctic ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Northern Illinois University geologists are helping to lead a multi-million-dollar, five-year investigation of melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) using a 24-foot-long ...
NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...
Work starts on new NPacific communications link
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Work has started on a new 130 million US dollar submarine fibre optic cable that is expected to revolutionise communications in the islands of the North Pacific, officials said.
Yellow submarine to try again for Atlantic glide
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A second try is about to get under way at sending a little yellow submarine gliding across the Atlantic Ocean to collect scientific data from beneath the waves.
'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two ...
Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes.
