The Bathysphere Book review: Amazing story of the first deep-sea dives
12 July 2023
Brad Fox's vivid retelling of the voyages of the first deep-sea submersible is full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries – and unusual scientists
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Blue Machine review: Earth's ocean as a giant engine
31 May 2023
Helen Czerski's fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physics and its key role in climate change
Puzzle #156: If you like puzzles, try our L-ympic challenge
23 February 2022
Can you solve this week’s tetromino-based puzzle, called "L of a puzzle"? Plus the answer to puzzle #155
Puzzle #130: Can you solve this civilisation’s sum?
8 September 2021
Can you solve this week’s fiendish puzzle Arithmagic? Plus the answer to puzzle #129
Stingrays’ bulging eyes and mouths make them much faster swimmers
2 September 2021
Stingrays have protruding eyes and mouths, which seem like they would make swimming less efficient, but they actually create vortices that let the rays swim faster
3D-printed robotic hand powered by water can play Super Mario Bros
15 July 2021
A 3D-printed robotic hand controlled by pressurised water can complete the first level of classic computer game Super Mario Bros in less than 90 seconds
The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses
15 April 2020
An alligator carcass dropped in the deep ocean reveals the bizarre ecosystems of the seabed - including zombie worms that fed on prehistoric reptiles
Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic
25 March 2020
A shrimp-like creature found 6 kilometres down in the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trench has been named Eurythenes plasticus after the microplastics found in its gut
Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less
4 July 2019
New experiments with ice at very high pressures could force us to rethink our understanding of water on Earth and other planets
Future plastic
15 August 2018
What is the ultimate fate for plastic waste in the sea? Will it form sediment that gets buried beneath the seabed and eventually turns into plastic "oil" or "coal"?
