"We were able to use these patterns to control the movement of objects as small as a grain of rice." Scientists develop ...

All five gyres are large systems of circular ocean currents which accumulate floating objects including plastics, [but] the North Pacific Gyre is the most-researched of the oceanic gyres ...

Ocean plastic accumulates in five patches ... the area of a football field every five seconds and removes foreign objects from the water without harming marine life. The Independent is the ...

Sound doesn’t just help us hear music or communicate underwater—it can also be used to move objects without physically ...

Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake or pool, and then trying to move. We’ve all been there—without paddling limbs, wind-catching sails, or a propelling engine, you’re stuck.

Converging currents at the surface of the ocean create some of the best places ... These often contain the highest concentration of small objects floating in the water. Photograph by David ...

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 spotted three floating objects, China’s official Xinhua News Agency ... to getting physical evidence that that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard.

The researchers fed this data into a computer model of how objects move ... plastic is entering the ocean each year and how much total plastic pollution there is floating on the sea surface.

But the other objects were downed over water or sparsely ... as well as some wiring that was floating on the ocean surface. But most of the electronics were in the balloon payload, carried underneath.