A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

A new study found that microbes in the Sargasso Sea divide nutrients throughout their communities over time, supporting ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Have you seen the clear, gelatinous creatures all over Grand Strand beaches? Here’s what the blobs are and why they’re ...

Light pollution, which illuminates the night sky, promotes the growth of cyanobacteria and stimulates metabolic processes in ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more ...