Tag: winds

Megalodon’s body size and form uncover why certain aquatic vertebrates can achieve gigantism

PALEONTOLOGY
A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which lived nearly worldwide 15–3.6 million years ago. Paleobiology professor Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University led the study...

Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March

ASTRONOMY
A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a...

Fueling the Los Angeles fires: the Santa Ana winds

EARTH
Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out...

Winds of change drive ‘alarming’ rate of ocean warming

ENVIRONMENT
UNSW researchers have solved the mystery of why and how ocean "hotspots" are forming so fast, by examining the winds that influence the ocean...

NASA’s Perseverance studies the wild winds of Jezero Crater

ASTRONOMY
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by...

Black hole winds are no longer as they used to be

ASTRONOMY
During the first billion years of the universe, winds blown by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies were much more frequent and...

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