Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research ...

First broadcast on July 17, 2025 Peter Barakan visits the region of Tosa, famous for the mighty Kuroshio Current and bonito ...

Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

They used both modern and Paleolithic oceanographic models to approximate the flow of the Kuroshio, varying the strength of the current between ebbs and peaks.

The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ancient tools.

China’s oceanographic survey and research ships are collecting data in the Indo-Pacific region — possibly to aid submarine navigation, detect or map undersea cables, and lay naval mines — activities ...

Neogene History of the Kuroshio Current Extension and Planktic Foraminifera Evolutionary Implications. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.

While the distance of 140 miles isn’t mighty when compared to some of the voyages the Polynesians are known to have made, it ...

A new study reveals that global ocean analysis products can effectively replace expensive in-situ sound speed measurements for precise seafloor positioning.

Starboard Maritime Intelligence data revealed that Chinese research ships last year repeatedly scanned the ocean floor east ...

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Without access to modern tools or navigational aids, how did ...