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Despite all of the elbow room the open ocean offers miniscule life forms such as phytoplankton, bacteria, and viruses, these creatures sometimes converge into patches called “thin layers.”

The 2005 Naval-Industry R&D Partnership Conference will take place July 26-29 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The theme, “Enabling Naval Innovations to Win the Global War on Terrorism,” will promote the Navy/Marine Corps objective to rapidly develop and implement innovative solutions to the unique challenges of this war.

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.

That bar code on your cereal box holds information read by a laser scanner. It's not much information, but it's enough to let the supermarket take your money, keep track of inventory, follow trends in customer preference, and restock its shelves. Scanners and bar codes speed up checkout, but they've...

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...

The Office of Naval Research will show off the very latest in technologies aimed at providing specialized capabilities for the Marine Corps when the Modern Day Marine Expo opens Sept. 27 in Quantico, Va.

ARLINGTON, Va.—In the somber wake of recent attacks in Paris, three World War II allies honored decades of defense-critical scientific collaboration—and re-affirmed their partnership for years to come. On Nov. 17, at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the British...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently hosted more than 100 experts for discussions on how science and technology can improve warfighter performance—and in the process assembled a panel of leading specialists that could transform training, experimentation and planning for Navy missions and operations.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced five energy goals at the Naval Energy Forum in Oct. 14-15, an event co-hosted by the Office of Naval Research and the Navy's Task Force Energy.

The Department of the Navy’s chief of naval research will appear on a Fox News program Nov. 9.