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- New Zealand's colossal squid defies legends: scientists
- WELLINGTON AFP — New Zealand's mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests. The 495 kilogramme (1,090-pound) female, accidently hauled in by a fishing boat in the Antarctic last year,...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- World's biggest squid reveals 'beach ball' eyes
- WELLINGTON AFP — The largest squid ever caught began to reveal its secrets Wednesday, including eyes the size of beach balls that one scientist said were likely the biggest ever known in the animal kingdom. The 495-kilogram (1,090-pound) colossal squid -- accidentally caught by a fishing boat in Antarctic...
- Research articles 2008-04-29
- Golden Globe nominations
- Movies Motion picture, drama: Brokeback Mountain; The Constant Gardener; Good Night, and Good Luck; A History of Violence; Match Point Motion picture, musical or comedy: Mrs. Henderson Presents; Pride & Prejudice; The Producers; The Squid and the Whale; Walk the Line Actress, drama: Maria Bello, A History...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
- Squid's in -- and now it's on film
- PARIS AFP — Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world. The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a querulous beak, Architeuthis has long nourished myth and literature, most memorably in Jules...
- Research articles 2005-09-27
- Superconducting detector array successfully deployed through NIST collaboration - News Briefs - Brief Article
- In collaboration with the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center on June 2, 2001, NIST successfully deployed a new type of superconducting detector at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The FIBRE instrument consists of a FabryPerot spectrometer with an 8 pixel detector array of superconducting transition-edge...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Corrosion Hide and Seek.(Brief Article)
- Corrosion occurs not only on parts and systems where it is easily detected and can be remedied, but also on hidden surfaces where it is extremely difficult to detect and study. The U.S. Air Force is especially concerned about hidden corrosion damage in aluminum aircraft structures,...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Scientists use crittercam to search for sea's most elusive creature
- Jules Verne would approve: Scientists from three countries are trying to capture a sea monster -- the giant squid -- never before seen alive in its natural habitat. They hope to snap its picture for posterity. Clyde Roper, a natural historian at the Smithsonian Institution, is talking about...
- Research articles 1997-05-05
- Hawaii's pelagic fisheries
- Introduction Hawaii's pelagic fisheries are small in comparison with other Pacific pelagic fisheries (NMFS, 1991), but they are the largest fisheries in the State (Pooley, 1993b), and much larger than other U.S. island-based fisheries in the western Pacific (Hamm et al. (1)). Stocks of tuna, billfish, and other tropical...
- Research articles 1993-03-22
- A high temperature superconductor phase shifter.
- Introduction High temperature superconductors HTS have received a great deal of attention for passive, low loss microwave filters and resonators.|1,2~ Phase shifters have been identified as one of the potential applications of HTS for microwave antennas.|3~ A new microwave variable phase shifter and time delay...
- Research articles 1992-12-01
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- Blind mate: giant squid leaves sex to chance
- STRALSUND, Germany AFP ? The giant squid is not especially choosy when it comes to sex and will mate blind without checking if the object of its affections is male or female, a German researcher said. Volker Miske, of the Stralsund maritime museum in northeast Germany, said a male...
- Research articles 2004-05-04
- Japanese scientists herald live giant squid footage
- TOKYO AFP — Japanese scientists have released what they say could be the first live video footage of the elusive giant squid, exposing some of the creature's underwater secrets. Scientists of the National Science Museum said they succeeded in catching a deep-sea giant squid at a depth of 640 meters...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Migrating Squid Drove Evolution of Sonar in Whales
- Behind the sailor's lore of fearsome battles between sperm whales and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop the underwater sonar needed to chase and catch squid in the inky depths? Now, two evolutionary biologists at the University of California UC, Berkeley, claim that-just...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- NOAA investigates giant deep-sea 'mystery squid'
- Many scientific discoveries begin with scientists asking, "Hey, did you see that?" This was certainly true when a group of researchers led by the NOAA spotted a 21-foot-long squid, dubbed the "mystery squid," while conducting an undersea project.
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Flashing monster of the sea shows it's not a damp squid
- PARIS AFP — Huge deep-sea squid use blinding flashes of light from their armtips to disorientate their prey before attacking at speed, Japanese researchers have reported. Using a newly-developed underwater high-definition video camera, a team led by Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum in Tokyo recorded the first...
- Research articles 2007-02-14
- New Zealand fishermen catch world's largest squid
- WELLINGTON AFP — A New Zealand fishing boat has landed what is believed to be a world record squid weighing an estimated 450 kilograms (990 pounds). The gigantic sea creature is about 10 metres (33 feet) long and about 150 kilograms heavier than the next biggest specimen ever found....
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- Giant squid washes up in Australia
- SYDNEY AFP — A rare giant squid measuring eight metres (26 feet) in length and weighing in at more than 250 kilogrammes (550 pounds) has washed up on an Australian beach, scientists said Wednesday. The massive sea monster was found on the island state of Tasmania late Tuesday by...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- Denizens of the deep - giant squid exhibition, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History - Brief Article
- Norwegians called them mermen. Jules Verne described them in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Better known from fiction than real life, giant squid make "live" appearances rarely, usually as bits and pieces in fishing nets or in the stomachs of beached whales. Then 3 years ago,...
- Research articles 1994-06-04
- Does the California market squid spawn naturally during the day or at night? A note on the successful use of ROVs to obtain basic fisheries biology data
- The California market squid Loligo opalescens Berry, also known as the opalescent inshore squid FAO, plays a central role in the nearshore ecological communities of the west coast of the United States (Morejohn et al., 1978; Hixon, 1983) and it is also a prime focus of California fisheries, ranking first...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- The fishery for California market squid , from 1981 through 2003
- Abstract--The California market squid Loligo opalescens has been harvested since the 1860s and it has become the largest fishery in California in terms of tonnage and dollars since 1993. The fishery began in Monterey Bay and then shifted to southern California, where effort has increased steadily since 1983. The California...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- HYPRES Awarded $100,000 By Department Of Energy To Develop High Speed SQUID Array Amplifier
- ELMSFORD, N.Y. -- HYPRES, Inc., a leading developer of superconducting microelectronics SME technology, has been awarded a nine-month, $100,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a low noise superconducting Quantum Interference Device SQUID-based amplifier chip for high speed applications. The amplifier chip will be used in wireless...
- Research articles 2006-09-12
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