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ONR demonstrates revolutionary new counter-mine technology for ships

ONR demonstrates new counter-mine technology for ships

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

In a time of increasing irregular warfare threats, the Navy has devised and successfully demonstrated a revolutionary technology to help reduce the risk of naval mine strikes to U.S. Navy ships.





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Engineering professor explores underwater wireless communications

Engineer explores underwater wireless communications

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Milica Stojanovic says the best way to think about the need for better underwater communications is to consider the Titanic.


NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

[B]Carnegie Mellon researchers use sonar to map, demystify El Zacatón[/B] A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, fin ...


Mass. center to build ocean monitoring stations

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean's role in climate change.


Lasers generate underwater sound

Lasers generate underwater sound

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a new technology for use in underwater acoustics. The new technology uses flashes of laser light to remotely create underwater sound. The new ...


The fishermen were trawling for mussels but found a forehead bone instead, along with a hand-axe and flints

Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.


Tiny Shrimp Help to Fine-Tune National Defense

Biology /

created May 10, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research being conducted by UMaine researcher Peter Jumars of the Darling Marine Center and UMaine School of Marine Sciences has created an unlikely pairing between the U.S. Department of Defense and a tiny ocean-going creature ...


Underwater robot with a sense of touch

Underwater robot with a sense of touch

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maintenance of offshore drilling rigs or underwater cables, taking samples of sediment - underwater robots perform a variety of deep-sea tasks. Research scientists now aim to equip robots ...


First underwater observatory live online

First underwater observatory live online

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists, including those from the Natural History Museum, have developed the world's first underwater observatory connected to the internet.


Hormone levels contribute to stress resilience

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is important to understand what biological mechanisms contribute to an individual's capacity to be resilient under conditions of extreme stress, such as those regularly experienced by soldiers, police, and firefighters. ...


Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...



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