Running hot and cold in the deep sea: Scientists explore rare environment

It’s extremely rare to find hot hydrothermal vents and cold methane seeps intersecting in one place, but that’s what researchers found and explored during an expedition in 2010. A description of the scientists’ findings, including a large number of mysterious, undescribed species, has just been published.

A professor has converted the seismic waves from last year’s historic Japanese earthquake into audio files. The results allow experts and general audiences to “hear” what the quake sounded like as it moved through the earth and around the globe.