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Students design underwater robot that does more than score points

(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

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team observes rapid change in underwater volcano Monowai

(Phys.org) -- A research team out to perform routine mapping of the seafloor some 400 kilometers southwest of Tonga, found that one volcano, named Monowai, changed dramatically over just a two week time span. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Uncovering the secret lives of fish in marine national parks

In a research partnership between Deakin University and Parks Victoria, marine scientists have captured rare video footage of fish and other marine creatures living on the seafloor off western Victoria.

Biology / Ecology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Portable tech might provide drinking water, power to villages

Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electricity.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Jellyfish inspires latest ocean-powered robot (w/ video)

American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans

In one of the more dramatic moments of an underwater archaeological survey co-led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio along Florida's Gulf Coast this summer, Andy Hemmings stood on an inundated ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists locate apparent hydrothermal vents off Antarctica

Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Automatic safety under water

The Suba system aims to become to diving what the automatic pilot is to flying. Developed by a student from EPFL, it will be released to the market by his start-up company: Pandora Underwater Equipment, starting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

5 more minutes? New clock answers resounding 'no'

(AP) -- There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Study reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean

Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utiliz ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues

Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas &M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps give hints of what types ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes

Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.

Biology / Ecology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 2

New Triton submarine in race to reach ocean bottom

(PhysOrg.com) -- Step back to 1960 when Trieste, the first and only manned vessel, reached the deepest known part of the ocean called Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam. No other vessel has ever ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report