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Ocean Planet Genomics: Deep-sea DNA Study Reveals Global Connectivity Of Earth’s Marine Life

by Keith Cowing

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurised world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than […]

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A Comprehensive Mini-Review on Culturable and Non-Culturable Microbial Diversity from Deep Sea

by Keith Cowing

Microorganisms are essential players in Earth’s ecosystems, demonstrating remarkable adaptability to harsh conditions including arctic ice caps, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and high-pressure oceanic zones.

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Answers To The Existence Of Alien Life Might Be Found In Earth’s Deep-sea Volcanoes

by Keith Cowing

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most likely that if there is life beyond our planet and within our solar […]

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Ocean Planet Exploration And Taxonomy: Naming A Strange New Species

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: one day we will begin a detailed exploration of ocean worlds other than our own. Hopefully they will be habitable – and inhabited. Given that we still find […]

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Ocean World Exploration: New Autonomous Vehicle Studies Deep Ocean Critical Minerals

by Keith Cowing

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was part […]

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Ice World Microbiology: Cryorhodopsins

by Keith Cowing

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold groundwater in Finland. As cold and beautiful these are, for the structural […]

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How Earth’s Biomass Changed Over 500 Million Years

by Keith Cowing

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past half-billion years of Earth’s history.

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Adapting to UV: Integrative Genomic and Structural Analysis in Bacteria from Chilean Extreme Environments

by Keith Cowing

Extremophilic bacteria from extreme environments, such as the Atacama Desert, Salar de Huasco, and Antarctica, exhibit adaptations to intense UV radiation. In this study, we investigated the genomic and structural […]

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Stellar Cartography: A Demonstration Of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: Those of you in the space community know that NASA Science is facing an immense budget cut. Dozens of missions have been cancelled and many missions that are […]

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