A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

Earthquakes have been detected in the Pacific Ocean using cable-based ocean monitoring techniques employed by scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and New Zealand’s Measurement ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms ... X-ray scanning was used to examine the structure of the sediment and combined with ...