Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...

owned by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). It can dive to a depth of 6,500 meters and has conducted about 1,800 deep-sea explorations to date.

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

Speaking of going deeper, let's dive into Aquaman #3 ... is this a hostile takeover or more of a "plenty of fish in the sea" situation? Watching humans become engrossed in stories about power ...

Frontwoman Jessica Dobson’s powerful voice and gnarled guitar solos grant the Seattle band’s propulsive, riff-laden indie rock a new level of yearning intensity. Billboard Heart’s songs are ...

Well, that’s one of the mysteries. The announcement trailer gives a sense of what to expect in this unusual deep sea dive. Dark Mass puts you in the role of deep sea explorer Alice who ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...