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A study in Nature has revealed a vast whale graveyard deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean. Researchers led by Xiaotong Peng of the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences documented hundreds of fossil whale remains and several modern carcasses across the Diamantina Zone, a remote region of ridges and…
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Stand on a shoreline and the logic of a city begins to feel almost inevitable. A coast is more than a boundary – it is a threshold. It offers food, movement, shelter and a horizon that invites imagination. For thousands of years, people returned to that edge where land meets water and some of their…
Stand near the shoreline for even a minute and your body registers the change almost immediately. The air feels heavier with moisture. Your lips catch a trace of salt. Breathing can feel smoother, or at least distinctly different from inland air. This shift comes from a complex mixture of ingredients in coastal air – sea…
For years, seaweed has been arranged in dark green ribbons on rice, folded around sushi, dipped into soup, or left on the plate’s edge. It is now gaining more recognition in the food discourse. While food manufacturers are studying how a small amount might alter the nutritional profile of common food products, researchers are examining…
