Engineers and coastal planners are increasingly focused on a deceptively simple idea: using ocean water more intelligently so it solves multiple problems instead of creating new ones. The phrase ...

For centuries, humans have struggled to study the vast, deep, and often inaccessible regions of the ocean. Traditional research vessels and satellites provide valuable data, but they have limitations.

Last July a tanker heading to Port Arthur, Texas, wasn’t responding to navigation commands to slow down. The crew aboard the Singapore-owned tanker tried to restart the main engine but weren’t able to ...