The fantasy of stumbling on a lost fortune is no longer confined to pirate tales. In deep water off Colombia and the ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water.

They have also designed scientific models and laboratory experiments. Researchers make concerning discovery using underwater ...

Equipped with a grasping arm attachment, video camera and 100-meter tether, the Power Hawks of South River High School deployed a 30-pound waterproof robot into the South River Wednesday to collect ...

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 ...

For Christine Dennison and Tim Taylor, pioneering ocean explorers and power couple in the world of underwater exploration, OTIS is more than just a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). It’s a labor of ...

All 50 campers tested their robots in the pool. A previous version of this article misidentified the number of campers who tested robots. Mizzou Engineering’s three-day youth underwater robotics camp ...

The robots will record movement, temperature, and salinity daily, aiming to reduce the cost of gathering ocean data by a ...

Blurring the line between biology and robotics, Chinese scientists are taking biomimicry to new depths with a small, low-energy bionic jellyfish that's so lifelike in form and movement it’s almost ...