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Nintendo A new entry in the Endless Ocean series, Endless Ocean Luminous, was revealed at the February Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. It will be available on Nintendo Switch on May 2, 2024. The final game highlighted in Nintendo’s Partner Showcase was the latest entry in the deep-sea exploration series, titled Endless Ocean Luminous. The trailer invites players to dive deep into an underwater landscape never before seen by humans called the Veiled Sea. Perhaps borrowing some rogue-lite elements, the area is said…

Several new games were revealed in today’s Nintendo Direct including Endless Ocean Luminous. This marks the first Endless Ocean game in over a decade with Endless Ocean 2 dating back to 2010 in the west. Up to 30 players will be able to explore the Veiled Sea in an unexplored region of the South Pacific Ocean on May 2, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKXjoA_Gai4 In Endless Ocean Luminous, players will encounter and learn about over 500 species of marine life including some which are presumed extinct or even…

Scientists have uncovered unexpected biodiversity in deep-sea environments, particularly around hydrothermal vents and manganese nodules, through detailed collection and DNA analysis of marine species. The findings, indicating isolated and unique species as well as potential reproductive habitats within nodules, underscore the ecological importance of these areas. Marine ecologist Sabine Gollner stresses the need for caution in considering deep-sea mining, given the high extinction risk to these unique species. Field of…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a second investigation into EV startup Fisker’s Ocean SUV, after the agency received four complaints about the vehicle rolling away unexpectedly, including one injury. The company tells TechCrunch it is “fully cooperating” with the safety agency. The new probe comes just one month after NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation began investigating complaints of sudden loss of braking performance. Fisker claims that problem was resolved…

Our solar system is full of secrets that are yet to be discovered. While astronomers and space agencies are hard at work studying the universe, the findings from these missions are put under the scanner by researchers to develop possible theories and find whether there is any chance of life existing on these planets if water is present there. Now, researchers have made a disappointing finding. They have reported that Saturn's moon Titan is quite uninhabitable despite being called an ocean moon. Researchers claim that the…

Our world’s coral reefs are much larger than we previously believed. According to a report shared on The Conversation by Mitchell Lyons, a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland, and Stuart Phinn, a Professor of Geography at The University of Queensland, researchers found 64,000 square kilometers of coral reef we didn’t know existed.The ground-breaking discovery brings the total size of our planet’s shallow reefs to roughly 348,000 square kilometers. That’s roughly the size of Germany, the…

During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum recorded in marine sediments, nitrogen isotopes and body size of microfossils reveal an increase in the oxygenation of the tropical ocean. The magnifier shows the foraminifera fossils. Credit: International Ocean Discovery Program / Simone Moretti Oxygen is fundamental to sustaining life on Earth. The ocean gets its oxygen from its uppermost layers in contact with the atmosphere. As…

So what’s going on here? For one, the oceans have been steadily warming over the decades, absorbing something like 90 percent of the extra heat that humans have added to the atmosphere. “The oceans are our saviors, in a way,” says biological oceanographer Francisco Chavez of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. “Things might be a lot worse in terms of climate impacts, because a lot of that heat is not only kept at the surface, it’s taken to depths.”A major concern with such warm surface temperatures…

In a mocking fluke of physics, Greenland – one of the main sources of meltwater flooding Earth's shores – is actually rising faster than the rising oceans.The elevating bedrock is gradually birthing new land in Greenland's sea including small islands and skerries, like Uunartoq Qeqertaq. Translating as 'warming island', this new 13 kilometer (8 mile) long landmass off the east coast of Greenland was officially recognized and added to Greenland's maps in 2005."The land uplift we observe in Greenland these years cannot be…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. That’s how the blockbuster Hollywood movie “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted an abrupt shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation and the catastrophic consequences.While Hollywood’s vision was over the top, the 2004 movie raised a serious question: If global warming shuts down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which…