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A chance encounter on a rocky seashore led one professor to invent autonomous robotics that can harvest the power of seaweed.

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Every summer since 2011, the brown seaweed Sargassum has blanketed beaches along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts, hurting local ecosystems and economies. Warmer temperatures have led to ...

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We dried them out and put them in little ... Then came a call from a Mexican friend, asking me to take a look at a seaweed problem. Every year, Caribbean islands and Mexican coasts are inundated ...