Reuters: John Church of the Australian government-backed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has called for the establishment of a network of deep ocean moorings to extend a system already in operation in the northern hemisphere. Church is a senior science adviser to the U.N.-backed World Climate Research Programme.Probes should be strung across the South Atlantic and through the Indonesian archipelago, as well as in the Southern Ocean in order to warn of changes in ocean circulation that may affect the global climate says Church.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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