In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Operators have pumped water to cool the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) since the ...

Around 30,000 years ago, prehistoric humans left Taiwan to settle on Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but scientists have long been perplexed about how they managed to cross the East China Sea. To answer this ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

Additionally, ocean currents vary by season, influencing when energy production is highest. For example, the U.S. East Coast sees stronger currents in warmer months , aligning well with increased ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...

Japan has started releasing wastewater into the ocean. ... The radionuclides could be carried by ocean currents, especially the cross-Pacific Kuroshio current.

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild conditions.