In an unprecedented effort to catalog the Earth's known marine microbes, and explore the ocean's yet untold microbial diversity, Mitchell L. Sogin, Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory's ...

In the past decade, a series of remarkable advances have been made in the important and dynamic field of marine microbiology. To highlight this progress, Nature Reviews Microbiology has devoted ...

Researchers scouring the world's oceans have been forced to drastically revise estimates for the number of microbial species residing there after a census indicated up to one hundred times the ...

Giant undersea microbial mat among discoveries revealed by marine life census Date: April 19, 2010 Source: Census of Marine Life Summary: Explorers are puzzling out nature's purpose behind the ...

Pollution from ships sunk during the First and Second World War are affecting undersea ecosystems. Millions of tonnes of munitions, fuel and other chemicals were sunk during the conflicts, with much ...

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of ...

image: Rock from deep beneath this undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean was recently studied to reveal some of the microbial life interactions going on in the deepest ocean crust ever explored ...

Tiny bits of plastic have infiltrated the deep sea’s main food source and could alter the ocean’s role in one of Earth’s ancient cooling processes, scientists say.

T he journey into a squid isn’t an easy one. But the bioluminescent marine microbe Vibrio fischeri is up for the challenge. Usually a free-living bacterium, V. fischeri has evolved a part-time ...

A study of marine sediments from around the world shows that dormant bacterial endospores make up a significant proportion of total microbial biomass. For the first time, researchers have determined ...

Representative image. ... The finding, published in the journal Nature Communications, contradicts the existing belief that the world has only 35,000 marine microbial species and 80 bacterial phyla.

But today, people are still wondering what’s up with the U.S. Marine Corps’ green skivvy t-shirts when the Navy and the Army had white undershirts during World War II.