Softpedia: A recent paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letter announces a world first for research projects focusing on the natural world and on how climate change and global warming are reshaping nature as we know it. In a nutshell, the paper in question details how, using a high-tech sensor anchored to the seafloor, scientist Jim Thomson and fellow researchers managed to measure the height of humongous waves in the Arctic Ocean. As detailed in a press release concerning this investigation, the sensor...