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Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

Bumblebees may be more resilient than previously thought Aaron Bastin/Alamy A lab mistake revealed that hibernating bumblebees can survive fully…

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Hibernating bumblebee queens surprisingly can survive underwater for days

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an…

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Shark skin and owl feathers could inspire quieter underwater sonar

Sharks and owls are evolutionarily optimized in surprisingly similar ways. When it comes to the ocean’s apex predator, their skin’s…

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Margin calls and leveraged executives: Former billionaires underwater when market changed

One CEO has been caught in the fallout from a souring leveraged buyout. Another is trying to make his business…

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11 remarkable images from the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition

Dive into the curiosities of our vast oceans, captured in stunning detail by photographers. Alex Dawson of Sweden swam away…

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Playing underwater sounds could help coral reefs fight global warming

2023 was the hottest year recorded on planet Earth – and that includes the world’s oceans, where records fell like…

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Humpback whales have a specialised larynx for underwater singing

Humpback whales use songs to communicate with each other across the ocean KARIM ILIYA Biologists have figured out how baleen…

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U.S. military says it struck a Houthi underwater vessel in the Red Sea : NPR

The U.S.S. Gravely destroyer is seen in the south Red Sea on Tuesday, Feb. 13. CENTCOM said U.S. forces repelled…

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Diving deeper into our oceans: Underwater drones open new doors for global coral reef research

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, in collaboration with the Japanese…

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Huge underwater ‘kite’ turbine powered 1,000 homes in the Faroe Islands

It’s been over a decade since PopSci last checked in on Minesto’s underwater “kite” turbine technology. Since then, the Swedish…

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