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A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...
Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.
The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...
According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...
Scientists have captured the first ever footage of a live colossal squid – the largest ... near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Schmidt Ocean Institute's remotely ...
Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...
The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.
A map of the ocean currents in the Atlantic. These ocean currents are weakening due to a "warming hole" in the waters southeast of Greenland. (Image credit: Adapted from PeterHermesFurian, via ...
Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...