Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions traveling under an Antarctic...
Creating a deep-sea underwater observatory may seem like science fiction, but researchers and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing have made it a reality
Each year, long-distance winds drop up to 900 million tons of dust from deserts and other parts of the land into the oceans. Scientists suspect this phenomenon connects to global climate-but...
Thirty years ago, scientists exploring the depths of the ocean came across jets of hot water, spewing from the sea floor, that hauled up flecks of gold and other minerals from Earth's interior and...
Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52...
Ordinarily, losing almost all of one's instruments would be considered a severe setback to any scientist. But when Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
