What Kelvin waves could mean for San Diego’s coast – NBC 7 San Diego
What are Kelvin waves, and how could they affect San Diego? Kelvin waves traveling through the Pacific Ocean…
Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome
While the calendar indicated that astronomical summer was winding down, a swath of the south-central United States was…
While a human operator reacts to a fusion plasma in seconds and its instabilities grow in thousandths of one, a controller ran a San Diego tokamak’s six microwave heaters 50 times a second, called a magnetic tear 200 milliseconds early and put current where it would have formed
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 The PACMAN controller running on a real tokamak isn’t a chatbot bolted onto a press release —…
‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey | Endangered species
It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a…
A pond in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression has a measured salinity of 433 grams per kilogram — roughly twelve times saltier than the open ocean and saltier than the Dead Sea — sitting inside one of the hottest, most hostile landscapes on the planet
Near the base of the Dallol hydrothermal field in Ethiopia’s Afar region sits a pond barely 60 meters…
The water cycle you learned about at school is off balance
The water cycle you were taught in school is being thrown off balance by fossil fuel pollution, bringing…
The Sun May Have Swallowed a Planet
New research suggests that some unusual characteristics of the Sun may be explained if it swallowed a large…
Shear-induced Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion in athermal jammed matter
Shear-rate dependence We start by focusing on a volume fraction ϕ = 0.68 (a value exactly in the middle of…
Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the…
NASA spacecraft discovers moon crater bigger than Roman Colosseum
Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result…
Central Coast braces for heavy rain as strong El Niño approaches
Strong El Niño could bring heavy rain and flooding to California’s Central Coast Central Coast officials are preparing…
Maine-native astronaut Jessica Meir excited to return to Earth soon
PORTLAND (WGME) — NASA’s Space X crew, including Maine native Jessica Meir, spoke from the International Space Station…