Elasmobranch scanner tech ready for War on Terror
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Pork-based artificial shark goes to sea The US Navy's plan to detect mines and other underwater objects by their electrical fields - in the same way as sharks and rays find prey - has moved closer to reality.â¦
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Cameras watch for face twitchers The US will redirect the bulk of its investment in civil surveillance technology next year into the production of devices it can deploy in its war on terror.â¦
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A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the oceans is tested by US scientists.
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Seals track prey with them, rats sense   nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using   whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid   obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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By Ian Katz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 10--It's Sept. 10, 2001. Companies are pitching ideas for a digital emergency alert network, a 10-finger and palm-print scanner and a Web site dedicated to bioterrorism.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 18  Â Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Papua province in Indonesia said Monday that they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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The next terrorist threat may come from the deep. In recent years, several homeland security alerts have focused on the danger of scuba-equipped terrorists targeting docked Navy vessels or ocean-side nuclear plants. Now the U.S. military is quietly developing a new generation of underwater weaponry.
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A laser designed for military use is close to hitting a power threshold thought necessary to turn it into a battlefield weapon.
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By THOMAS WATKINS SAN DIEGO - Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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The Navy considers deploying dozens of trained dolphins and sea lions -- capable of detecting mines and cuffing rogue swimmers -- in Washington state. By the Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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By Anonymous  The New South Wales Department of Environment & Conservation (NSW DEC) has been using a 125 kHz GeoAcoustics GeoSwath Plus wide swath sonar system for habitat mapping within the state's network of Marine Protected Areas.
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A white shark in captivity could offer new insights on the mysterious and feared creature.
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Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday.