It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...

Oxygen is essential for living organisms, particularly multicellular life, to metabolize organic matter and energize all life ...

A 2023 study suggests microplastics may interfere with phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms that help oceans absorb ...

Slat says those early failures helped the nonprofit land on its current, more successful formula. It places contraptions that ...

Without the chicken, there is no egg, and without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has ...

Without the chicken, there is no egg; without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has puzzled ...

How climate change affects pollutants in the ocean. The ocean is warming, acidifying, and losing oxygen—well-documented ...

The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet. In 2017, ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

The marine ecosystem is home to a diverse multi-cellular flora, many of which possess a rich array of valuable bioactive ingredients. Seaweeds, seagrass, and other marine plants have been identified ...