Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)—first developed by the Hughes ... autonomous vehicles, ocean seafloor mapping, and much more. However, like all technologies, there’s always room for ...

This reduction, mostly resulting from a global slowdown in seafloor spreading, caused ocean basins to deepen. In addition, the researchers calculated that heat flowing into the ocean from the hot ...

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ocean floor 500 kilometers off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, the highest level ever found on the seafloor anywhere, a group of ...