A new study has used 30 years of data to find areas with the highest potential for generating energy from ocean currents ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...

The Kuroshio Current that runs on the west side of the Pacific Ocean and along the east side of Japan has recently been ... in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water ...

Unlike better known ocean currents – such as the Gulf Stream along the United States' east coast, the Kuroshio Current near Japan ... lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor.

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties. As ...

Summers in Japan are typically hot and rainy. Unlike much of the US, where warmer temperatures generally lead to less rain, ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now ...

Mars might hold enough subsurface water to cover its surface in a global ocean between 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) ...

The QUAD grouping of India, the US, Australia and Japan met officials of the Philippines and discussed maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific during the recently held Raisina Dialogue. In ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current ... Western Pacific Ocean this week ...