A new study out of the U.K. lays out how thumbs helped shape brain development in humans and other primates. Scientists found ...

Pupils could work to label a world map, showing the locations of the five oceans and could carry out research to find the approximate size of each, ranking these from largest to smallest.

Big data maps world's ocean floor Date: August 10, 2015 Source: University of Sydney Summary: The creation of the world's first digital map of the seafloor's geology is underway. It is the first ...

The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more. Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries.

The winning SeaKIT surface vessel More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are currently unmapped, but a $7 million prize pool to explore the deep sea hopes to change that. The Ocean Discovery ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

A new book follows the race to map the seafloor, documenting how it’s done, why and what a clear view of the deep sea could mean for Earth’s future.

The project, called Seabed 2030, aims to map 100% of the global ocean floor by 2030 using largely crowd-sourced data from science vessels, corporations and private boat owners around the world.

Climate change is the most basic and urgent reason to map the ocean as quickly as possible. Healthy oceans play an outsized role in minimizing climate change, because they capture carbon emissions.