As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

Opting for a plant-based diet doesn't mean you have to sacrifice those delicious seafood flavors. You get enjoy ocean notes ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

Stripping carbon dioxide out of the ocean could be much more efficient than capturing it from the air. Researchers are hoping ...

About 100 volunteers helped replant native grass in the sand dunes of Ocean Beach, the city’s three-mile front door to the Pacific Ocean. The newly planted grass, protected by temporary fencing, will ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...