Amazon River: Massive coral reef discovered A team of scientists from Brazil and the United States discovered the reef in the muddy waters at the mouth of the Amazon, according to a report published in the journal Science on Friday. The reef system spans 3,600-square miles along the ocean floor, stretching from French Guiana to Brazil's Maranhao state along the edge of South America's continental shelf. The finding is surprising because large rivers normally create gaps in reef distribution due to unfavorable conditions such as salinity, pH and light penetration. However, this coral reef system seems to be healthy, according to the report. The carbonate structure, which functions as a waterway passage for fish and other marine life, is home to a big colony of sponges and other creatures that thrive in low-light waters. An international team of scientists from the University of Georgia and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro was on an expedition to learn more about Amazon River plumes when it made the discovery.
1913 - Rise of the robots: The evolution of Ford's assembly line There was a time in the not-so-distant past when car manufacturing relied on horse-drawn carriages to deliver each frame to the workers. Determined to find a more efficient way to make cars, Henry Ford launched the industry's first moving assembly line at the Highland Park Plant in Detroit, Michigan, in 1913. The rope-and-pulley system moved the vehicle down a line of workers, each with a specific task. It drastically cut the man-hours required to assemble a Model T -- from 12-and-a-half-hours, down to six. More than 100 years later, the moving assembly line is a fundamental part of car manufacturing around the world -- though you'd be hard pressed to find a rudimentary rope-and-pulley nowadays. Superstrong robots, some with "laser eyes," perform everything from welding, to die casting and painting, alongside their human colleagues on the factory floor. Today, Ford has over 20,000 robots in operation globally.
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