Deep-Sea Vessel Puts Ocean Floor in Reach
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A new deep-sea research vessel will be able to carry people to 99 percent of the ocean floor, diving deeper than the famed Alvin that pioneered the study of seafloor vents, plate tectonics and deep ocean creatures over the past 40 years.
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A research vessel that was deliberately trapped in the Arctic ice emerges after more than 500 days.
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A breathing mixture commonly used by deep-sea divers shows promise for treating asthma attacks.
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The University of Rhode Island has designed a voyage to the bottom of the sea for students in an emerging field of scientific exploration &#151; archaeological oceanography.
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Work is under way on the first undersea telecommunications cable linking the US with China.
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The world&#39;s first private spaceship has blasted into the final frontier for the second time in five days, snatching the nearly 14-million dollar prize and founding a new era of space tourism.
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An unmanned Nasa jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across a continent in minutes instead of hours.
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The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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A major rescue effort has been launched off the coast of Ireland after a Canadian submarine sent a distress signal for assistance from the North Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday.
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Marine researchers have discovered the deepest coral reef ever found in the United States in about 250 feet of water off the Florida coast.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.
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The Gulf of Mexico discovery, which could boost US reserves by half, set a new depth record.
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Mysterious deep-sea giants that use their bioluminescent arms to dazzle and catch prey have been filmed for the first time ever in the wild. With videos
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Some 13,000 new marine species have been discovered in the past year by an international survey project.
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A large network of waterways helps carry ice from the center of Antarctica to the ocean, scientists say, in a finding that may help clarify how global warming will affect the world's sea levels.