An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile ...

The consequences of global warming, caused mainly by burning fossil fuels, are varied and many. Now scientists have ...

This finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species of spider ...

Deep in the cave recesses, springs feed a stream. But this isn’t fresh mountain water. It’s a sulfidic brew, loaded with ...

Interplanetary dust laced with helium-3 that has settled on the sea floor has provided climate scientists with an urgently ...

Researchers say well over 100,000 spiders from two different species coexist in this remarkable underground metropolis for ...

The extraordinary web, first spotted during an underground wildlife survey in 2022, spans nearly 100 square metres — roughly ...

The cavern along the border of Greece and Albania is home to a terrifyingly high number of two species of arachnids that live ...

The incredible material science behind natural and synthetic spider silk, which possesses greater tensile strength than steel ...