LAKE CHILWA, Malawi — When fishers on Lake Chilwa cast their nets, they don’t know whether there are fish below, or something else entirely. “We don’t go out in the lake to check what we have where.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What was once an idea submitted by a student for a university contest is now a working — or rather, swimming — prototype that ...
© Dr Robert Siddall / University of Surrey. Microplastics are found in oceans and waterways all over the world. We are only just beginning to understand the damage ...
The boat-shaped robot takes advantage of the same phenomenon – the Marangoni effect – used by some aquatic insects to propel themselves across the surface of water. A chemical reaction within a tiny ...
In the future, robots will not only replace caregivers and make sushi, but they’ll also lend a hand offshore. According to Reuters, a team of European scientists at the University of Essex developed a ...
An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have created a robotic fish that doesn’t just collect plastic pollution; ...