Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is working on a method to apply 3D printing in oceanic environments.

Cornell researchers are racing to 3D-print concrete underwater using seafloor sediment for a DARPA challenge launching in ...

Explore the science behind rivers that refuse to mix, revealing nature's invisible boundaries shaped by temperature, density, ...

Since it was invented in the 1980s, 3D printing has moved from the laboratory to the factory, the home and even outer space.

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

To understand why the Tohoku earthquake was so unusually powerful – and why it produced such a catastrophic tsunami – an ...

Buried deep beneath the Atlantic seafloor lies a hidden reservoir that could transform the future of freshwater access.

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden freshwater reservoir beneath the Atlantic Ocean, buried for over 20,000 years.