Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

When a trench collapse trapped two workers in Yarmouth, MA, firefighters launched a technical rescue operation. Scott Smith ...

The federal government is eyeing a potential offshore mining project near the Mariana Trench, in an area around 128 nautical miles east of Saipan and around the same distance east of Guam, in response ...

U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ...

The Explorers Club has become a direct pipeline for content creators seeking real stories rooted in adventure, science, and ...

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

The Indian Ocean lies between Africa and Australia. It is the world’s third largest ocean and is known for warm waters, powerful monsoon winds, major international trade routes, deep oceanic trenches ...

The Earth's lithosphere is the rigid outer shell of the planet and is broken into several tectonic plates. These plates are in constant motion over the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath them. Much ...

The picture shows the dramatic uplift of 4.3 m due to the strong 2024 earthquake on the Noto Peninsula, Japan. The coastline was lifted and rocks formerly submerged are exposed. A team of ...