New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger. What happens, then, to keep ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world's oceans ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2005), pp. 599-620 (22 pages) We develop a simple, efficient numerical method of boundary integral type for solving an elliptic partial differential ...

Could an airplane actually reach speeds above Mach 4 when flying at the boundary of space? Russia’s restarted MiG-41 project ...