For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Although most dissolved inorganic ...

In late 2025, a comprehensive scientific expedition off the coast of Argentina brought back high-resolution footage, ...

An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

If you go down to the deep sea today you could be in for a big surprise. From dancing disco worms to majestic phantom jellyfish, the deep sea is full of wonders. For a group of researchers in Japan, ...

Although most dissolved inorganic carbon fixation occurs at the ocean’s surface, some of that fixation budget originates from the deep ocean. In a new study, scientists suggest that microbial ...