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Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

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Pacific SIDS grapple with a range of issues, including climate vulnerability, economic fragility, and geographic isolation, which hinder their ability to establish robust security systems. For example ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is seeking to shore up ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Estonian naval ships sail in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, as part of stepped-up NATO patrols in ...

The missiles were launched around 9:30 a.m. from Chagang province, roughly 140 miles north of Pyongyang, and flew approximately 155 miles before splashing into the Sea of Japan, or East Sea ...

A Philippine security official said Tuesday that China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing South China Sea aggression. Here, a Chinese coast guard ship patrols the Philippines' Exclusive ...

The C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable is being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea by cable ship Ile de Brehat on the shore of Helsinki, Finland [File: Lehtikuva/Heikki Saukkomaa/via ...

Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as bọ biển or "sea bugs" in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from ...