At first, they looked like something unnatural. Bright blue, almost plastic-like, scattered across the sand as far as the eye could see. Beachgoers stopped, stared, and pulled out their phones. Some ...

Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors. As if answering recent criticism of Oracle's custodianship of ...

For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass in the ...

Neuropathologist Elaine Bearer was curious after discovering unidentifiable "glassy blobs" in the brains of two people who had dementia, as reported by Chemical & Engineering News. Bearer could not ...

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California. Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

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The “warm blob” is back! It sounds a little like a horror movie. An expansive pool of unusually warm water in the northern Pacific Ocean has resurfaced. Washington State Climatologist Nick Bond dubbed ...

Something strange is happening in the Pacific Ocean. South of Alaska, sea surface temperatures started surging well above average this summer. The "warm blob" is back, and it has implications for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the seasons change in the northern hemisphere, things are slowly cooling down. That is, they are on land. In the northern ...