The frozen edges of Antarctica are less stable than they appear. Beneath the wide, seemingly immovable shelves of ice, the ...

An autonomous submarine exploring the remote waters beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica has discovered strange and previously unseen structures sculpted in the ice. These findings, ranging from ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast expanse of ice sit hundreds of canyons, some up to tens of thousands of feet deep. These complex formations under a seemingly barren landscape play a significant role in ...

Submarine fans receive sediment through canyon-channel systems and are the largest detrital accumulations on Earth. Their general characteristics and developmental models are reviewed. Submarine fans ...

Engineers have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water. Small autonomous underwater vehicles, like the drones of the sea, could be very ...

At the bottom of Long Island Sound, close to Manhattan Island, sea-exploring Dr. William Beebe last week slapped at a wayward fish, caught a clam and a starfish, without getting his trousers wet by ...

Submarine fans constitute the largest accumulations of genetically related detritus on Earth (e.g., the Bengal and Indus fans, which are linked to South Asian sediment source areas; Figure 1). Fan ...