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Marine Bacteria
Marine Bacteria: are single-celled organisms that can be shaped like little spheres, rods, or (less commonly) spirals. The are often very small, with cell diameters of just a few microns (about 1/100th the width of a human hair). They perform all kinds of chemical processes in the open ocean, including most of the steps in nitrogen cycling.
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AUG 05, 2025Microbiology
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The Tara Oceans project has been aiming to reveal more about the vast world of marine microbes, which we now know little ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 23, 2023Earth & The Environment
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AUG 05, 2025
Microbiology
In 2013, divers began to notice something terrible happening to sea stars in the waters around Washington State. The sea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2025
Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2025
Microbiology
Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can di
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can ship anchors affect Antarctic ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Conservation Sci
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 28, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What processes are contributing to the global oceans reducing the depths where sunlight reaches, also called ocean darke
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 13, 2025
Plants & Animals
Deep sea ecosystems are some of the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the Earth that reside more than 650 feet b
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 24, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study pu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 17, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cyanobacteria are single celled microbes that can photosynthesize, and they helped generate Earth's atmosphere to make c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have identified mineral formations on the floor of the Dead Sea that could warn of oncoming sinkholes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2024
Microbiology
All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Researchers went 'bioprospecting' in marine microbes, looking for those that can perform helpful functions like eating p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2024
Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2024
Microbiology
Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside the many animals' guts and in ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 19, 2024
Microbiology
It's estimated that 90% of the biomass in the oceans are marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2023
Microbiology
Microbes are everywhere, even inside of our bodies. The gut microbiome has been shown to have a powerful influence on bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Little sacs can bud from cells, and they are known as extracellular vesicles. These little sacs can contain many molecul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2023
Microbiology
Sargassum is a brown macroalgae that is abundant in the ocean. It has many appendages and 'berries' that are ful
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 02, 2023
Microbiology
The Tara Oceans project has been aiming to reveal more about the vast world of marine microbes, which we now know little
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2023
Earth & The Environment
While ocean plastic has become quite the environmental concern, a team of researchers recently discovered this hasn&rsqu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 11, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have been finding life in hydrothermal vents for years, but researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for M
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 01, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers were able to take advantage of "an incredibly unique opportunity" to study the microbial life that rapidly c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2023
Plants & Animals
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have studied the virus with a near singular purpose: finding ways
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JAN 08, 2023
Microbiology
It seems that ocean water can contain genetic material from microbes, who are sharing genes, and modifying their functio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch