By: Alyssa Wan On August 8, scientists finally recovered the first long section (parallel to the geological plane) of rocks from deep under the earth at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, once…
Sea Lions Beats Robots at Ocean Research?
By: Jessie Liang More than 80% of earth’s watery depth of oceans have been undiscovered or seen by humans, so imagine discovering the depths under the sea not by heavy…
Rocks from the Ocean’s ‘Lost City’ May Reveal the Secrets of Life’s Origins
By: Jerry Zhang On Thursday, August 8, 2024, a report was published in the journal Science detailing how a 30-person team drilled into the Mid-Atlantic seabed and pulled up nearly…
Sea lions, our biggest helper in the ocean floor.
By: Wesley Zhao We’ve already mapped out most of the land on Earth, but we have just started to uncover the ocean. Sea lions are helping oceanographers by having underwater…
Sea Lions Helping Humans Discover New Depths
By: Megan Wei Marine biologists have long been stuck with a big problem: how to explore the depths of the ocean. On Aug 7, 2024, Nathan Angelakis, who’s a Ph.D….
Researchers Explore Ocean Life With Sea Lions
By: Ben Xu Most of the world remains unseen and undiscovered. A vast majority of the ocean still has not been explored. However, researchers in Australia continue to journey across…
Oldest Ever Dinosaur Fossil Found in Brazil
By: Catherine Yanlin Xu On August 8, 2024, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the oldest dinosaur fossil was found. It was a 233 million year old…
Christopher Ratté finds 2,400-year-old coins
By: Boya Hu On August 2, 2024, Christopher Ratté found 2,400-year-old coins buried in Turkey, believed to have belonged to a soldier. The soldier had hidden them in piles, each…
Plane Crash in Brazil
By: Shirley Huang crashed outside of São Paulo, Brazil. According to The New York Times, all 62 passengers were killed! The plane crashed in a yard of a home, but…
Airplane Falls From the Sky and Kills 62 People in Brazil, including Children and a Dog
By: Rachael Tan Officials continue to investigate the cause of a fatal plane crash in Brazil which killed 62 people. Theories and speculations have started to form using videos, photos,…