In a corner of Rice University’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), a group of students is tackling a big idea: revolutionizing maritime transport with swarms of smart, self-sailing boats. The project, aptly named FleetCode, is the latest iteration of an ambitious multiyear effort to design autonomous sail craft that could one day deliver cargo, map uncharted waters or support naval operations without a single crew member on board.

The Fanthorp Inn is a historic stagecoach stop dating back to the 1800s, located in Anderson, Texas. Students and faculty from Texas A&M University are quite literally digging into the past at this historic site to uncover details about life in early Texas. Students are using tools like ground-penetrating radar and careful excavation techniques to explore areas around the inn.

On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a long-term observatory situated between Svalbard and Greenland. There they will investigate how the ecosystems of the Arctic deep sea are reacting to changing environmental conditions as a result of rapid climate change. The month-long expedition, which is scheduled to finish in Tromsø, Norway, at the end of June, will focus on benthic and plankton communities in the open water and physical changes in the ocean.