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

Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research Center, University of Western Australia ...

Footage from the depths of the Tonga Trench in the South Pacific has captured a bigfin squid (Magnapinna) walking on its ...

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 ...

In a hundred-day expedition, scientists aboard the Chikyu aim to piece together the earthquake's story and assess the ...

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

Hydrothermal vent nanostructures could mimic life's processes, channeling ions and generating energy, aiding theories of life ...

Rivers are a primary source of the plastics that clog oceanic ecosystems and contribute to the continent-sized Great Pacific ...

I’m not sure why I felt an obligation – perhaps because I’m now residing within easy walking distance of Hyde Park – but I ...

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the earth's five oceans. However, not only is it the largest, but it's bigger ...