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ZME Science •

What Really Causes Tides and Why the Answer Is Stranger Than You Think

When Laura Dekker was 11 years old, she anchored her small keelboat in the Wadden Sea and went to sleep. She had selected a place that appeared deep enough. What she neglected to consider was that the sea had no intention of remaining there.


“I woke up at night because my small keelboat had fallen over in the soft mud as the tide had run out,” the Dutch resident told ZME Science. “Oops! I remember it very well. It was a good lesson.”


This is one of the ocean’s more effective teaching lesso...
ZME Science •

What Really Causes Tides and Why the Answer Is Stranger Than You Think

When Laura Dekker was 11 years old, she anchored her small keelboat in the Wadden Sea and went to sleep. She had selected a place that appeared deep enough. What she neglected to consider was that the sea had no intention of remaining there.


“I woke up at night because my small keelboat had fallen over in the soft mud as the tide had run out,” the Dutch resident told ZME Science. “Oops! I remember it very well. It was a good lesson.”


This is one of the ocean’s more effective teaching lesso...
AUSA •

Battlefield Evacuations: Future May See Unmanned Care, Movement of Casualties

The Black Hawk came in low. Dust jumped, doors rattled, and the medic steadied himself over a soldier with a tourniquet. The ride was a sprint to the next medical echelon and a race against blood loss.

For generations, that outline in the sky has meant the same thing to troops—you might live. But the battlefield is changing. Thanks to drones lingering in wait, the kill zone is wider, and anything that flies can be hunted. Now the military is trying something new: Keep crews out of the worst air...
ZME Science •

This Is How Autocrats Quietly Take Over and What You Can Do About It

In the past two decades, a slide from democracy toward autocracy has been a consistent global theme. Across various countries—some young and fragile, others long considered unassailable—democracies appear to be folding in on themselves. The weight of history, however, has often taught citizens to expect that parliaments, courts, and other safeguards will hold firm. Yet, as the past is starting to show, they do not always stand up to leaders who wield the slow, methodical tools of backsliding....