In maritime engineering, the application of system identification techniques for ship manoeuvring models is critical to ensuring the accuracy and reliability of control systems in dynamic, real-world ...

USNS Bowditch pier side during a visit to India. At sea, research vessels are tools of maritime power. America’s ocean research fleet is in flux, with Trump Administration cuts hitting an aged fleet ...

Chinese research ships are appearing more often in the United States Arctic than they have in years past, the U.S. Coast Guard said. In response, Coast Guard crews are ramping up their presence in U.S ...

For more than three decades, a single orange-hulled icebreaker carried much of the United States’ scientific ambition into ...

A "high-tech" Chinese government research ship, which is reportedly capable of spying, was tracked sailing off the coast of Australia, a United States ally in the South Pacific Ocean. In Beijing, the ...

Alison Murray and her colleagues were all set to dive in Antarctica. They planned to build on their earlier finding that sea squirts — sponge-like invertebrates on the seafloor — host a microbe that ...

Plymouth-based HMS Somerset shadowed Russian research ship Yantar in the North Sea for eight days, from Nov. 5-11, 2025, as the vessel sailed northwards towards the Faroe Islands. Royal Navy photo A ...