
Top women's hoops teams head off continent for Thanksgiving tournaments
Seven of the top 10 teams in the country are headed off continent to play in Thanksgiving tournaments in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands
2023-11-21 18:56

Tottenham impressed by Koki Machida in search for defensive reinforcements
Tottenham are continuing their search for a new defender and have been impressed with the performances of Union Saint-Gilloise's Japan international Koki Machida this season.
2023-11-21 18:51

xQc recounts high-stakes gambling adventure in Vegas during F1 weekend: 'I almost did it'
xQc reveals details of gambling session during F1 weekend where he went through intense swings of fortune
2023-11-21 18:51

'Rihanna single mom era incoming': Fans concerned as A$AP Rocky will face trial over firearm case
A$AP Rocky's trial on the firearm case is scheduled to begin on January 8
2023-11-21 18:49

Putin, Xi and UN Secretary-General Gutteres to attend virtual meeting on Israel-Hamas war
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS bloc of developing countries will hold a virtual meeting on the Israel-Hamas war on Tuesday
2023-11-21 18:48

Trail of ghostly crabs leads scientists to extraordinary underwater discovery
We’ve heard of following the yellow brick road, and even following the white rabbit, but scientists have just made a landmark discovery by following a trail of ghostly crabs. For some 20 years, experts believed there was a hydrothermal vent field off the western Galápagos Islands, but they hadn’t been able to pinpoint its exact location. However, while exploring the area they spotted a galatheid crab (also called a squat lobster), and then another, and then another. They traced the crustaceans excitedly as their number grew until, finally, they were led to the elusive hydrothermal goldmine. There are only around 550 known hydrothermal vents in the world, only half of which have actually been seen. The rest have been identified via chemical and temperature signatures in the surrounding water, as Live Science notes. Hydrothermal vents are formed when water seeps into the rock of the seafloor at either a plate margin or where magma is rising to the surface in another part of the plate. The magma heats the water, which causes it to rise, before it’s expelled through fissures in the rock, often forming what are known as chimneys. The new Galápagos field, discovered thanks to the crabs which aggregate around deep-sear vents, extends more than 98,800 square feet (9,178 square metres), and consists of five geyser-like chimneys and three hot springs. The highest temperature so far recorded there is a staggering 288C (550F). As well as the the geysers, hot springs and crabs, the team, from the Schmidt Ocean Institute, found a thriving ecosystem of incredibly adapted organisms. "There were giant tube worms, which can be a couple (of) metres long. There were very large clams, sometimes called dinner plate clams, as well as mussels," said Roxanne Beinart, a biological oceanographer who co-led the expedition. To locate the hydrothermal field, the researchers first began searching the general region where a chemical anomaly had been identified in 2008. "One of the anomalies that we look for is a lens of low oxygen water," expedition co-leader Jill McDermott, a chemical oceanographer at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, told Live Science. "Oxygen is completely removed through circulation in the seafloor. So the water that's expressed at the seafloor is devoid of oxygen." The team then followed this plume of oxygen-poor water until it disappeared — implying they were close to the vent. They then launched a remotely operated vehicle to inspect the seafloor and traced the breadcrumb trail of crabs to the vent field itself. “With 75 per cent of the seafloor still to map, finding this new vent field shows how much we still have to learn about our planet and those who live on it,” the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Executive Director Dr Jyotika Virmani said in a statement. “I am continually amazed by the otherworldly beauty of our seafloor and look forward to uncovering more.” And what did the team christen the new hydrothermal vent field? Why, the “Sendero del Cangrejo,” or “Trail of the Crabs,” of course. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings
2023-11-21 18:46

'Get The Party Started': Pink is bringing the Summer Carnival back to the UK next June
Pink played sold-out shows across the UK last summer and she's ready to get the party started again in 2024.
2023-11-21 18:29

FaZe Banks calls Adin Ross and begs him to stop gambling on stream: 'This is just really toxic bro'
After Adin Ross supposedly lost millions in a short period while gambling on a Kick stream, FaZe Banks called him and requested to stop gambling
2023-11-21 18:27

Ladbaby won't be entering the Christmas No1 race this year
LadBaby are not entering a song into the Christmas number one chart battle this year.
2023-11-21 18:27

'That was a Swift exit': NFL fans joke as Travis Kelce contemplates leaving football due to lingering pain from surgeries
Travis Kelce said, 'The lingering injuries, the 10 surgeries I've had that I still feel every single surgery to this day'
2023-11-21 18:26

Eric Clapton's iconic guitar sells for a whopping $1.27m
Eric Clapton's 'Summer of Love' guitar from his time in Cream has fetched a crazy amount at auction.
2023-11-21 18:23

John Oliver mocks Fabio Lanzoni for saying Hamas '10,000 times worse than the Nazis' who 'kept it quiet'
John Oliver countered these statements on his show, emphasizing the lack of subtlety historically associated with the Nazis
2023-11-21 18:23