Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

Following the formation of a 1,000-foot lava cone between 2001 and 2005, the Vailulu’u site was investigated by the National ...

A team of researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology has systematically reviewed the key scientific ...

Researchers have created an artificial gill that extracts oxygen from seawater to fuel cells, enabling robotic sea gliders or autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to operate on long missions.

"Anyone that doesn't want to do deep-sea mining is implicitly saying we need to do more land-based mining." Jovana Jovanova ...

but these deep-sea hydrothermal vents are teeming with life, including species yet to be discovered. In December 2016, researchers operating a remote-controlled underwater robot were exploring the ...

This robot was hunting for rocks ... after for use in renewable energy devices and batteries, for example. But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially ...