As deep-sea robots continue to evolve, they hold the potential to discover new life forms—true deep-sea "aliens"—and unlock ...

The deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, Calypso Deep, was found to be a bit of a dump. That's surprising because we don't ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth’s deepest point – 36,000ft underwater – in search of deep-sea “aliens”. The ...

Humans have an unfortunate talent for mismanaging the significant amounts of waste we produce. While many of us may think we've successfully hidden our trash, a startling revelation has emerged from ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken ...

Human-generated waste has reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea, the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep, with 167 objects identified, primarily plastics, glass, metal, and paper.

Researchers discovered plastic, glass, metal and paper waste at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112m depression in the Ionian Sea about 60km west of Greece’s Peloponnese coast. Plastic ...

The bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112-metre deep depression in the Ionian Sea, contains one of the highest concentrations of marine debris in the deep ocean: it is yet another testimony to the ...

The images provided by the Limiting Factor confirm that, in addition to accumulating on coasts, surface waters and shallower bottoms, marine litter also reaches the deepest and most remote points of ...