Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

A new study suggests the world's oxygen-depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the ...

Nearly century-old studies of marine plankton and the rise of manmade chemicals found in the ocean could be used to measure the impact on human activity on ecosystem health as well as study chronic ...

Plankton are an incredibly important part of the ocean. Phytoplanton form the base of the marine food web and zooplankton include an incredible variety of organisms, from curious critters called ...

We know that plankton are too small and weak to swim on their own, so how do these little drifters get to where they need to go? Seeking answers to this question along with other insights about our ...

Samsung has decided the display world needed another gimmick, so it has unveiled a 13-inch colour e-paper screen built with bio-resin derived from phytoplankton. Plankton has taken time from its… ...

Ocean warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will prompt many species of marine plankton to seek out new habitats, in some cases as a matter of survival. Researchers expect many ...