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Don't like your government? Maybe it's time to make one of your own Economy got you down? Not sure if this whole "American capitalism" thing is working out for you? Looking for cheap housing? Well, you...
View ArticleSoccer-Ball-Sized Submersible Robots Will Track Ocean Currents and Disasters...
Underwater Swarm Don't kick me, I'm here in the name of science Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San DiegoThe National Science Foundation has awarded almost $1 million to develop a swarm of...
View ArticleGiant Floating Crane Searching For Clues to Korean Maritime Disaster
Preparing To Lift: The massive crane prepares to haul up a 1,322 ton South Korean warship. Getty ImagesA floating crane prepares to raise from the depths a South Korean navy combat corvette that...
View ArticleSix Months After The Leak, We Survey The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Up Close
Lowering The Sub A crane onboard the Arctic Sunrise lowers researchers Steve Ross and John Hocevar into the Gulf of Mexico in the Dual DeepWorker 3 submarine. Sean Gardner/GreenpeaceWe spent...
View ArticleUnseen Currents: A Blind Oceanographer Chases Undersea Storms
The Good Ship KnorrChris GallOn the Labrador Sea, the scientific crew of the research vessel Knorr hunts for underwater storms, sinks a two-mile mooring--and gathers clues to the planet's fate As we...
View ArticleAn Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way
Search Team The Alkyon, which provides an operations base for underwater robot searches, sails past Fort Koules on the Heraklion harbor. Courtesy Dimitris Sakellariou/Hellenic Center For Marine...
View ArticleHow It Works: A Recycled-Air Scuba System
Rebreather Scuba SystemBeaudanielsRebreathing air, underwater Conventional scuba systems have some major limitations. Divers using them must carefully monitor the depth and time they stay underwater...
View ArticleHow It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion This schematic shows how the heat exchange works in an ocean thermal energy conversion plant. The heat differential between surface water and deep water in the ocean is...
View ArticleThe First Solar-Powered Ship to Circumnavigate the Globe Completes Its Trip
The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar pulled into Monaco's Hercule Harbor on Friday, completing its journey around the world--the very first solely solar-powered watercraft to do so. Of course, it's not an...
View ArticleVideo: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
Roomba Sea Drones A new design concept that's a little familiar. Hsu SeanClearing the muck from an oil spill is tough enough without having to worry about collateral damage, but designer Hsu Sean is...
View ArticleVideo: Jellyfish Made From Silicone and Rat's Heart Cells Swims and Beats...
Medusoid JellyfishCaltech and Harvard UniversityDespite being one of the most alien-looking things on Earth, the mechanism jellyfish use to swim is similar in some ways to the beating human heart. That...
View ArticleVideo: Inside NASA's Spectacular Undersea Mission to Save Earth from a Deadly...
With Neil deGrasse Tyson, visiting a simulated asteroid under the sea PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos...
View ArticleThe Most Technologically Advanced Warship Ever Built
The Zumwalt-Class DestroyerNick KaloterakisWhen the Navy needs to surprise and overwhelm an inland enemy, it can send in its new Zumwalt-class destroyer. When the USS Zumwalt rolls out of dry dock at...
View ArticleFYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?
Sea FoamGregory Jordan via FlickrAnd is it dangerous? Just a few hours before a tornado touched down in Queens, New York this past September, I was hanging out on a beach in The Rockaways, a narrow...
View ArticleUnder The Sea
Seafloor RigAker SolutionsWhy moving rigs to the seafloor could make Arctic drilling less risky. Drilling in the Arctic is a matter of when and not if. With summer sea ice having declined 30 percent...
View ArticleA Generator That Harnesses Energy From Ocean Currents
Aqua TurbineTrevor JohnstonA working model of the estimated $5-million device could be ready within a year. The magic of ocean currents is that they surround every continent on Earth and they run all...
View ArticleWhat Would Happen If Everyone Peed In The Ocean At The Same Time?
When You Gotta Go...One woman finds out what really happens when humans "go" in the water.Wikimedia CommonsA thought experiment Lauren Wolf, an associate editor at Chemical & Engineering News and...
View ArticleWhy One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park
New Species in Loki's Castlevia University of BergenBack in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a...
View ArticleHow It Works: A Recycled-Air Scuba System
Rebreather Scuba System Beaudaniels Conventional scuba systems have some major limitations. Divers using them must carefully monitor the depth and time they stay underwater and endure a series of...
View ArticleHow It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion This schematic shows how the heat exchange works in an ocean thermal energy conversion plant. The heat differential between surface water and deep water in the ocean is...
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