The adrenalin of the race doesn’t fade after the first few days at sea. Drawing: Gisèle Durand Ruiz With 41 days to go to the start line, Oliver Heer, Justine Mettraux and Alan Roura finish preparing for the Vendée Globe. They will attempt to sail solo around...
Six hundred thousand beats per minute separate the fastest and slowest animals as they flap their wings. But they all have one thing in common. Image: Dørte Mandrup Arkitekter/Mir Like Leonardo da Vinci in his day, Danish physicists at Roskilde University have been...
Unlike this wave, which was photographed during a storm in the Southern Ocean, rogue waves are completely unpredictable for ships and are more than twice as high as the neighboring waves. (Photo: Julia Hager) After detailed observations of waves in the Southern Ocean,...
Matthias Jaggi measures a snow profile near the DomeC research station in Antarctica. Photo: Matthias Jaggi / SLF An interview originally prepared and published by the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. He’s back! Having returned from Antarctica, SLF...
Estimating the amount of sea ice is limited by its complex composition. Image : Heiner Kubny Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an...
