"To understand the origin of life, it becomes important to understand when and how Earth began hosting an ocean with a more neutral pH," says Meng Guo, a former Yale graduate student who is now a ...

A solution with a pH lower than 7 is considered acidic; modern-day seawater has a pH of about 8. But it is widely believed that Earth’s ancient ocean was much more acidic, making it harder to sustain ...

In this research, Mitchell and Madhusudhan investigate how ocean surface temperatures affect Earth-like single-celled life and how long it takes them to originate on Hycean Worlds. They also ...

Acting in the latest edition of “The White Lotus” is like “living inside a screensaver,” says star Natasha Rothwell.

The ocean seethes with them ... 10 percent to 20 percent—of the atmosphere’s oxygen. That means that life on Earth depends on the roughly 3 octillion (or 3 × 10 27) tiny individual cells ...

Scientists aboard the research vessel Reuben Lasker were conducting surveys of marine life off the Southern California coast in early January when ash from the Los Angeles wildfires began to rain ...

When the recent wildfires tore through Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, they also sent plumes of smoke out over the ocean. NOAA satellite images show smoke and ash ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's ... Arctic Cyclones Could Be ...

At Tedium, Ernie Smith writes: Having seen a lot of pipes, wavy lines, and flying toasters in my day, there was a real novelty to the art of screen savers, which became another way to put your visual ...

If you got your Amazon Kindle solely for the convenience of reading digital written content, then you probably don't pay too much attention to your device's screensaver (the image you see when you ...

Names associated with the ocean (or water in general) hold a special place in my heart. One of my friends who lives with his family out in California lives near the ocean, and all of them have names ...