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

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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 ...

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

Deep beneath the border of Albania and Greece, scientists have uncovered a natural marvel: the world’s largest spider web, ...

As we found in our recent research, our brains also have powerful mechanisms for defending body weight – and can sort of ...

Microbes near the surface of the Southern Ocean sustain the polar food chain — impacting the nutrient flow from the surface to the depths where other microbial communities thrive in the dark. National ...

Crosslinking proteins that connect different components of cytoskeletal networks are more than just structural elements: they also have a functional role in stabilizing and destabilizing the networks ...