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Stories about: gliders

Transoceanic Research Gliders Are Now Here Last year marked the first time an underwater robotic vehicle (glider) crossed the Atlantic Ocean, demonstrating that doing so is possible. Several months after, other gliders were used to quell the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Today, December 9, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural H... 9 December 2010 05:36 GMT Marine Glider 'Spies' on Whale Songs Scientists have known for quite a long time that whales communicate through their song, those long sounds that they make when being relatively close to each other. Some of the clicks can even be heard miles away, and picked up by other whales, if noise pollution and sonar sounds don't mask them. Now, scientists ... 10 November 2009 03:25 GMT