With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

This isn’t fiction or a sailor’s tall tale—it’s the story of the deep scattering layer, a mysterious band of ocean creatures that move as one, deceiving even the most advanced sonar systems.

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

The area of deep-sea trenches is between Africa and the Arabian ... Because very few organisms survive in the brine pools, the sediment layers have remained undisturbed and have preserved an ...

As secretary-general of the ISA, I am confident that we are on track to deliver a strong, science-based regulatory regime ...

Johanna Weston, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The hadal zone is the deepest layer of the ocean, stretching between 19,700 and 36,000 feet deep. This layer of the ocean mostly includes ...

In the pressure of the deep sea, the curvy molecule conforms to the ... water-hating tails commingle to form an inner layer, and their water-loving heads arrange together to form the outer ...