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Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge took place in July with seven university teams pitting their underwater robots against each other on a submarine obstacle course. Moon lets users visit the sites of each Apollo... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo The Ministry of Defence normally uses the facility for ship and submarine trials. Meet Nessie, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University's autonomous underwater robot. Nessie recently won the Student Autonomous Underwater... [20 Jul 2009]
Caption Competition: Train takes the strain
Photo Blast - there goes my last submarine! This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Neville was "Did you say B4? Photo credit: LewisImagebank [20 Mar 2009]
Photos: Exploring virtual shipwrecks
Photo In order to create the images, the Venus project uses this remotely operated submarine that maps out each shipwreck and the surrounding sea bed. The simulator lets the viewer control a virtual submarine... [25 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment For my young mind it was the magic of dreams: a submarine powered by a force as powerful as the sun, X-ray vision, an invisible man, and machines much smarter than mankind. Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80,... [28 Aug 2008]
The First Human-Powered Submarine to Cross the Atlantic Will Use a Propulsion System That Precisely Replicates a Dolphin's Tail
White Paper In addition to being a way to uncover the secrets of how swimming creatures move so seemingly effortlessly, Ciamillo is now incorporating the findings into the propulsion system of a human-powered submarine in which he... [15 Jan 2008]
The American Bureau of Shipping Recently Certified a Submarine Solely on the Basis of Finite Element Analysis and Strain Sensor Testing
White Paper Predictive Engineering challenge was to assist designers of a unique, private submarine by predicting performance prior to construction and sea trials and predict global buckling behavior and local stress concentrations. [15 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - August 2007
Photo Top Gun' course for Submarine Hunters. This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you can get online on Google Maps. Follow the link to find... [31 Aug 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo Steve Street, training and publications officer at DSTL, said: "We cannot see a submarine but it will always make a certain amount of noise. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has showcased how top... [22 Aug 2007]
MPs probe £900m overspend on late submarines
News This is the second time the MoD has had to answer for overspending on this submarine project, after facing MPs on the House of Commons public accounts committee last year. BAE said it will take no profit in 2006 for the... [15 Mar 2006]
Navy buys mine-sniffing underwater robots
News The Royal Navy is taking delivery of a fleet of underwater robots which will hunt down sea mines. The battery-powered Remote Environmental Monitoring Units - known as Remus - will operate at depths of up to 100m, scanning the seabed to... [31 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up In 2001 a shark was blamed for "eating the internet" when a submarine cable connecting homes in Singapore was bitten through and connections lost. "A bad workman always blames his tools. So it has been said many a time. [13 May 2005]
Who's a silly boy then?
News Alas, in reality it is a doctored photo of a nuclear submarine control room mock-up, according to the myth-debunking site Snopes.com. Sun CEO taken in by Photoshop Oracle OpenWorld: While busy taking swipes at his hosts,... [09 Dec 2004]
Iraqi telecoms contracts up for grabs
News To satisfy demand, the next stages for those rebuilding the communications infrastructure are tenders for about $75m of public switches as well as underground copper and fibre, satellite connections, internet access and access to the... [27 May 2004]
US seamen given tech toys to pass the time
News The Interactive Digital Software Association has donated Nintendo GameCubes, PlayStation 2s and Xboxes to every submarine in the US fleet. US Navy submariners have been given games consoles to help them pass the lonely... [30 Aug 2002]
