Shark attacks on humans are still very rare — only about 70 per year. They are still less common than lightning strikes (270 cases per year) or drowning deaths (320,000 deaths per year). And sharks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was standing in knee-deep water when his foot was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, ...

Most people love the ocean, but few of us are eager to be a shark snack, thus shark repellent, but how well do these devices actually work?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A new shark-repellent device demonstrated in a viral YouTube video is drawing attention for what appears to be its ability to drive away dozens of sharks with a single blast.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Science keeps trying but has yet to find a reliable way to keep sharks at bay. Even the late Julia Child, before she went with all ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. It’s safe to say that most people do not want to get up close and personal with a shark when they take ...

BIMINI, Bahamas -- For decades, people have been searching for a chemical substance that repels sharks. Now an American inventor believes he has grasped it. Eric Stroud, a research chemist who heads ...

Sometimes some of the coolest stories get lost in history. The CIA recently noted one of them – famous French food chef and author Julia Child’s critical involvement in developing a shark repellent ...

I’d always thought “shark repellant” was just sort of an ACMEesque joke product, but apparently there have been a variety of products available for just such a purpose as far back as World War II. The ...

Sharks are known to be sensitive to the electrical fields of magnets, but surprisingly, this non-magnetic rare earth metal repels them. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was standing in knee-deep water when his foot was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida, a few miles from where a fellow teenager was also attacked by a ...