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World’s largest live underwater observatory project launched in Canada

Published on July 4, 2009 in Science. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

water_01The world’s largest and most advanced underwater observatory project was launched in a ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in the western Pacific province British Columbia.

The 100-million-dollar Neptune Canada project will make it possible for life beneath the ocean to go live on the Internet, giving people an unprecedented experience. Led by the University of Victoria (UVic), it will provide 25 years of long-term monitoring of ocean events as they occur.

“At a time when our understanding of the oceans is clearly becoming more essential than ever, Neptune Canada will play a leadership role in advancing our knowledge of the oceans in ways not previously possible,”  UVic president, said in a statement.

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Scientists found mysterious forms of Water

Published on June 25, 2009 in General Science and Science. 0 Comments Tags: , .

water_01Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, along with researchers in Italy, have found two types of liquid water that have long been suspected to exist below water’s normal freezing point.

Unlike most liquids, water becomes less rather than more dense when it freezes — and it is densest not when it is coldest (at 0 degrees Celsius, just before it freezes) but at 4 degrees C.

These are just two of water’s host of anomalous properties, some of which are crucial to its behaviour in the natural environment.

In 1992, Gene Stanley of Boston University, Massachusetts, and his co-workers carried out computer simulations of water, which suggested that hydrogen bonds in water might produce two different types of liquid if water was made very cold and squeezed to high pressures.

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