
Alex Fox
Journalist at Freelance
Writing about science. Bylines: @NYTScience @SmithsonianMag @NatGeo @NewsFromScience @NatureNews @ScienceNews @MercNews @Mongabay | @UCSC_SciCom Grad.
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1 month ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Alex Fox
How do you protect an endangered serpent with a special talent for hiding in plain sight? Coild in the canopy of the lowland rainforests of northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia, the elusive and endangered Blomberg’s tree boa can remain motionless for hours, like a trap waiting to be sprung.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
phys.org | Alex Fox
For decades, scientists assumed that only large ocean temperature patterns covering 200 kilometers (124 miles) or more could strongly influence storms. Now, by leveraging advances in computing power, a team of scientists from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have discovered that small-scale ocean processes can have a much larger influence on storm development than previously thought.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
phys.org | Alex Fox
A new study led by scientists from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and published in Scientific Reports details an improved method for estimating the likelihood of extreme precipitation events in the western United States.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
phys.org | Alex Fox
El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the Southwestern United States, respectively. In 2023, however, a La Niña year proved extremely wet in the Southwest instead of dry.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
today.ucsd.edu | Alex Fox |Brittany Hook
Article Content Scientists at the University of California San Diego received 10 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) awards from the Department of Defense (DOD). Nine of UC San Diego’s awardees are based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The DURIP awards $43 million across 64 universities to purchase equipment that will enable cutting-edge research.
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