"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —More than a century ago, an estimated 180,000 female Atlantic sturgeon arrived from the coast in the spring to spawn in the Delaware River and fishermen sought their caviar as a lucrative export ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 06, 2013 not rated yet 2

(Phys.org) —The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

The EU funded European research project FILOSE has developed robots with a new sense - lateral line sensing. All fish have this sensing organ but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

An underwater robot made a splash at a University of Delaware swimming pool recently in a test of the new equipment, which will soon be used in field research by College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) scientists.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Trees do not grow in the deep sea, nevertheless sunken pieces of wood can develop into oases for deep-sea life - at least temporarily until the wood is fully degraded. A team of Max Planck researchers from ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 22, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Tiny coral reef wrasses can swim as fast as some of the swiftest fish in the ocean – but using only half as much energy to do so, Australian scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

As NYU-Poly associate professor of mechanical engineering Maurizio Porfiri and assistant professor of technology management Oded Nov launched their submersible robot, Brooklyn Atlantis 1, into the polluted Gowanus Canal, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Engineers at Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of ...

Technology - Engineering

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(AP)—An eel undulating through coastal waters, powered by batteries and checking for mines. A jellyfish is actually a surveillance robot, powered by the atoms around it. Fins pick up intelligence while propelling a robot ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

University of Delaware researchers are using an underwater robot to find and follow sand tiger sharks that they previously tagged with transmitters. The innovative project is part of a multi-year partnership ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

For the first time in East Antarctica, climate scientists have produced a three-dimensional (3-D) map of the surface beneath a sea ice floe, revealing an inverted complex topography evocative of lakes and ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 12, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

For years, the U.S. Navy has employed human divers, equipped with sonar cameras, to search for underwater mines attached to ship hulls. The Navy has also trained dolphins and sea lions to search for bombs ...

Electronics - Robotics

Jul 17, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

An Italian battleship which sank during World War II off the coast of Sardinia after it was bombed by a German warplane has been found, Italy's navy said in a statement on Thursday.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 28, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) -- Since he was 12 years old and successfully talked his way onto an underwater robotics club for kids aged 13 and up, Trevor Uptain has been building robots of the kind used by oceanographers and ...

Electronics - Robotics

Jun 01, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0