[Schmidt Ocean Institute] An international team of midwater experts on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) discovered over two dozen new marine species on a recent expedition off […]
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Posted inAnalog Studies, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Fossils & Paleontology, Habitable Zones, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release, Sample Return
Study Showcases Resilience and Rapid Growth of “Living Rocks”
South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called microbialites. Like coral reefs, these complex “living rocks” are […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Sample Return, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Oceanic Gene Transfer On A Planetry Scale
Researchers Quantify Rate Of Essential Evolutionary Process In Earth’s Ocean
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Press Release, Terraforming & Geoengineering
Terraforming And Planetary Engineering: Study Underscores Uncertain Costs Of Iron Fertilization
Editor’s note: It is a common thing to sit back and imagine what other worlds are like, if we can live there, and how we might need to modify the […]
Posted inWater/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
New Approach Opens Window Into Life Below The Seafloor
New research may provide a breakthrough for scientists to understand life in the harshest of environments. Scientists from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences studied microorganisms from an underwater mountain in […]
Posted inMicrobiology & Virology
Microbe Discovered That Has Been In Evolutionary Stasis For Millions Of Years
It’s like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has revealed that a group of microbes, which feed off chemical reactions triggered by radioactivity, […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Study Shows Unusual Microbes Hold Clues To Early Life
A new study has revealed how a group of deep-sea microbes provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth, according to a recent paper in The ISME Journal. Researchers […]
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Press Release
Expedition Finds Signs of Life in Earth's Mantle
An international team of scientists recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean have collected an unprecedented sequence of rock samples from the shallow […]