Abstract: Offshore wind energy development is currently moving to deep-sea far-shore areas, bringing challenges for its electrical system design. This article proposes an optimization method for the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...

Taqa UK's Eider Alpha topsides has been removed, marking a major milestone in the operator's plans to decommission its Northern North Sea platforms. The 11,606 tonnes topsides was removed in a ...

Sea urchins are infamous for their painful spines. This experiment used an ultra realistic fake foot to test just how sharp they can be. Over 140,000 bottles of cholesterol medication recalled. See ...

The deep sea is by far the largest habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have ...

Some of the animals identified in the deep-sea that spend their life in the benthic boundary layer.(Photo credit: Gabrielle Ellis) An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean — ...

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. Credit: Blue Planet Archive / Masa ...

A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and explored a sunken warship. By Popular Science Team Published Oct 4, 2025 10:00 AM ...

“In this photo, I’m examining some of the animals in my care. I work as an ecologist at the St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, which is sited on a small island off the coast of mainland ...