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Robotic boats will battle it out at the 6th International RoboBoat Competition, slated for July 8–14.

Microbes have been exploited for thousands of years to help us make bread and alcohol, and more recently, to make antibiotics and clean up toxic spills.

In the deep waters two miles south of Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard, not far from where, two centuries ago, the likes of Captain Ahab and a thousand others kept their watch for the great white and his kin, we are now searching to understand another potential beast in those parts: the ocean and the...

Something strange is going on in a shallow, marshy area of Virginia's Elizabeth River, and the Office of Naval Research is onto it. Here is a site so polluted that when the riverbed there is disturbed, oil generally bubbles up and forms a slick on the water's surface. Yet, in this foul soup there is...

Communicating with Light Polarization A new and novel way of communicating over fiber optics is being developed by physicists supported by the Office of Naval Research. Rather than using the amplitude and frequency of electromagnetic waves, they're using the polarization of the wave to carry the...

A new video provides an in-depth look at three ONR TechSolutions prototype technologies that may soon affect the day-to-day lives of warfighters.

ONR Global TechSolutions recently demonstrated the Anthropometric Measurement Device, which is designed to help select the right aircraft for differently sized aviators.

Hunches are 50-50 propositions, but Navy researchers want to know if those facing the unexpected in the heat of battle can be trained to guess right more often than not.

If you know anything about methane gas – and the Office of Naval Research thinks you should – it probably has something to do with swamp gas, and a faintly unpleasant sulfurous smell that rises from country marshes on sultry, summer evenings, or perhaps – for more romantic types – stories of Will-o'...

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