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After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013.

A deep-sea mollusk, Catillopecten margaritatus, lost its sight and adapted to bacteria and chemicals to survive in extreme ...

Some of the nastiest bacteria that thrive in the human gut and make us sick may have evolved from hardy ancestors living deep under the sea, a group of Japanese scientists found. Subscribe to read ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki have used a screening technology that can test for the antivirulence and antibacterial effect of hundreds of unknown compounds simultaneously, to identify ...

For hundreds of years sailors have told stories about miles of glowing ocean during a moonless night. In 1849 on the Arabian Sea, one sailor, Captain Kempthorne, described a most extraordinary ...

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Those unusual spiders, the team found, collect bacteria on their bodies, which, in turn, convert methane gas into nutrients the spiders can eat, like fats and sugars. “Just like you would eat eggs for ...

From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to cancer cells: they push them toward self-destruction instead of survival. Rather ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have to line up around a thousand of them to match the thickness of a human thumbnail.