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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STAR at RHIC The experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory has revealed hints of a critical point in the phase transition of nuclear matter. (Courtesy: BNL) In a major advance for nuclear physics, ...