It uncovered how some microscopic single-celled ... a significant amount of carbon from the water surface. This helps feed other organisms in the ocean's food chain and increases the complexity ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory ... all while getting soaked in frigid ocean water and battling seasickness as the boat bounced up and down. Dr. Fields, right ...

Some 140 million years ago, a free-living bacteria that could grab all the nitrogen it wanted out of the water it was ... nitrogen into the global ocean. Solving this microscopic riddle took ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

agglutinans could effectively record water temperatures and track heavy metals from human activities, making it valuable for monitoring ocean health. "The organism shows particular sensitivity to ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.