Science

The East/Japan Sea in the western North Pacific is ventilated from the surface to the bottom of the ocean over decades. Authors conclude that overturning circulation is weakening, slowing down the transport of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the surface to the interior of the East/Japan Sea.

A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio
Powerful currents drive the oceans' circulation and Earth's climate. MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Stephanie Waterman has investigated the underlying physics that drive the currents.

Sea Ice Decline May Actually Have Aided Ocean Overturning.

Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoons.

How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche?

A grad student peers into the lives of larvae, before they grow up to be scallops.

Grad students surmount big hurdles to build a device for a small marine mammal.

Hubble has found 14 stars that are shooting through interstellar gas, creating 'bow shocks' that resemble the waves at the bow of a boat

The remarkable journey of a green turtle from Indonesia into Australian waters is helping conservationists to track the migratory route of this species to the Kimberley-Pilbara coast - one of the few relatively pristine coastal areas left on Earth.

Techniques that rapidly chill the brain could prevent damage and even aid resuscitation after a heart attack

To discourage proliferation, calls are growing to establish a system where nuclear materials are managed under international auspices

The Sun is about to go into a period of low sunspot activity and could let more harmful cosmic rays enter the solar system

Some ancient Greek houses had a secret double life – they were also used as drinking taverns and brothels, suggests an archaeological analysis

There's no hope for the dinosaurs, but other long-dead creatures really could be brought back to life. looks at the most likely candidates

Scientists have managed to measure a quantum buoyancy effect that could one day be harnessed to stop tiny devices gumming up

Pulsars are not simply lighthouses that beam out radio waves from their poles - many also emit gamma rays from their equators

Multiple comets struck the oceans in 536 AD, throwing up a 'dry fog' that caused crops to fail over half the globe

A do-it-yourself movement is hoping to open up synthetic biology to anyone with a passion for tweaking DNA

A do-it-yourself movement is hoping to open up synthetic biology to anyone with a passion for tweaking DNA

A do-it-yourself movement is hoping to open up synthetic biology to anyone with a passion for tweaking DNA