NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves.

Pacific sleeper sharks were spotted in the South China Sea - 1,800 miles from home - offering new clues about deep-ocean ...

These waves are up to a kilometer long and hundreds of meters high, located about one kilometer below the seabed. Their existence tells a powerful story about the birth of the modern Atlantic Ocean.

When we think of the ocean, what often comes to mind are familiar sights– coral reefs, fishing boats, and waves breaking ...

The speed of these waves is influenced by the depth of the ocean: in deeper water, they can travel at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour. Approximately 80% of tsunamis are caused by earthquakes.

Here's how we know : Short Wave There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, ...

Scientists have discovered giant mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a country in west Africa. Made of mud and sand, these massive ...

With a depth of only around 100 feet in its southern reaches, it isn’t a particularly deep sea. Sometimes during storms, big waves dredge up sand from the bottom and fling it onto the deck of a ...