Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to ...

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, ...

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, ...

One paper used numerical simulations to test navigating the strong Kuroshio Current. The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ...

First broadcast on July 17, 2025 Peter Barakan visits the region of Tosa, famous for the mighty Kuroshio Current and bonito ...

Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research ...

Illuminating the Past to See the Future of Western Boundary Currents: MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE KUROSHIO CURRENT EXTENSION Adriane R. Lam , R. Mark Leckie , Molly O. Patterson ...

Increasingly powerful tropical cyclones in the North Pacific Ocean may be fueling a powerful north-flowing ocean current, helping to boost the amount of heat it ferries to northern latitudes.By ...

Kuroshio current may be responsible for climatic discomfort in Tokyo, scientists find. Tohoku University. Journal Journal of Climate Funder MEXT, NASA, National Science Foundation, JSPS ...

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

"The Kuroshio current is considered like the Gulf Stream of the Pacific, a very large current that can rapidly carry the radioactivity into the interior" of the ocean, Buesseler said.

Scientists now have undertaken an experimental voyage across a stretch of the East China Sea, paddling from Ushibi in eastern Taiwan to Japan's Yonaguni Island in a dugout canoe to demonstrate how ...