Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, ...

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An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robots ...

Underwater robots may be a key to understanding how the climate is changing and how our sea levels are rising. This year might be a preview of what the future holds. Researchers at UC San Diego’s ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem. Abandoned containers and fishing gear can trap or strangle animals, and plastic waste can break down into microplastics, which can release chemicals ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...

Pytoplankton are plant-like microorganisms that are estimated to have generated half of the Earth's oxygen supply. And even when they die, they fall to the ocean floor and turn into a massive carbon ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Ocean Robotics announced it has been included in Robotics Business Review’s list of the 50 most influential robotics companies in the world (RBR50) for its UVD ...

A robotic wave glider recently pulled into an Australian bay, marking the end of a record-setting 9,000-nautical-mile journey in the name of science and technology. The Papa Mau robot is one of four ...

Aug. 19, 2004 -- Scientists are figuring out how to use one of the tiniest creatures on the planet to generate a virtually endless supply of electricity that can power remote sensors scattered across ...