The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
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For well over a century, engineers have proposed harnessing the ocean’s tides for energy. But the idea hasn’t seemed to register in many places.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth’s specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
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Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
Our cosmic home, planet Earth, has been through a lot over the past 4.5 billion years. Here are some of its most spectacular changes
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
Former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh revitalized the brand with a visionary innovation plan.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
The recent discovery of a large cave on the Moon highlights the importance of caves not just for future space explorers but astrobiology as well.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth’s surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.
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