But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills ... high degree of accuracy," said Smyth. His research found two million square kilometers (770,000 square miles) of ...

The next big breakthrough when it comes to cleaning up disastrous oil spills in the ocean just might come from ... that is very good at slowing high turbulence water flows, allowing the filtering ...

From oil spills to ... penetrates the ocean, said Tim Smyth, a marine biogeochemistry specialist at Britain's Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Seawater generally absorbs more red light, but that can change ...

Show more Show less Machine learning is helping scientists track down hidden oil spills ... of ocean species from coral to crabs. That works in part by collaborating with high-tech, lab-equipped ...

"It used to take human analysts weeks if not months to be able to detect a single (small-scale) oil ... high degree of accuracy," said Smyth. His research found two million square kilometres of ...