The world’s oceans have seen significant declines in certain types of microscopic plant-life at the base of the marine food chain, according to a new NASA study. The research, published Sept. 23 in ...

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

A new use has emerged for a technology revolutionizing ocean research, led by marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. The research ...

Nearly three miles beneath the ocean’s surface exists a world rarely seen by human eyes. Little is known about the abyssal ...

Microscopic view of a coccolithophore (Syracosphaera pulchra), a single-celled ocean alga which intricate calcium plates (coccoliths) play a role in the global carbon cycle. Smaller than a speck of ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on ...

A new study regarding parasites living inside fish illustrates the widespread presence of organisms in major ecosystems.