The scientists found nanostructures around the vents that can act as selective ion channels, which means they work a bit like ...

The ocean's twilight zone is iron-deficient, limiting bacterial growth and affecting carbon storage. New findings show high ...

The deep sea is considered Earth's final frontier due to its inhospitable, uncharted depths. However, Japan faces the risk of ...

In 2010, 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging an environmental habitat area larger than the ...

Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...

The positive to take away from the story is that more ocean research can be used to better protect our oceans.

Oceanographers led by people from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California have recently made an exciting discovery. During ...

Most of the world’s everyday goods are shipped in metal boxes across the ocean. But when those containers fall off the ship, ...