By: Olivia Luo On August 14, 2024, a field trip to Detroit’s 36th District Court took a troubling turn when a 16-year-old girl fell asleep during court proceedings. The trip,…
The Oldest Dinosaur Found
By: Emila Zhang In Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, a 233-million-year-old dinosaur fossil was discovered.Mother Nature helped the paleontologists, as heavy rain was active in Rio Grande do…
Sea Lions Offer a Different View of the Sea Floor
By: Charles Li A new way of understanding the ocean floor and its ecosystems has emerged—using what is already there. “For most of the ocean, we don’t know what the…
SCIENTISTS UNCOVER FIRST LONG SECTION OF ROCKS FROM DEEP WITHIN EARTH
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…
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…