�鶹��ý

Skip to content

Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans and seas. Zooplankton.

Environment

Geoengineering the seas could be catastrophic for marine life

Proposed methods of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the alkalinity of seawater using minerals such as basalt could severely affect the availability of nutrients in the deep ocean

News

Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) grows in a thick, underwater forest near the Channel Islands in California. This area is part of a National Park and is teeming with thousands of marine species.

Life

Kelp forests capture nearly 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually

News

Rubbish pulled from the great Pacific garbage patch

Environment

Great Pacific Garbage Patch hosts stable community of coastal animals

News

Space

What are the prospects for life on the icy moons Europa and Enceladus?

News

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

Life

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

News

The slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum is used to study the origins of multicellularity

Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

Comment

Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

News

Stephen Hawking with Thomas Hertog, in Hawking's office

Physics

Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out

Features

Dusky gregory farmerfish Stegastes nigricans

Life

Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back from bleaching events

News

RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year a small group of atmospheric scientists move a fluxsled to the ice, this was the first instrument deployed on the new MOSAiC floe. ?Leap of Science? by Lianna Nixon (USA)

Humans

See the top shots in the Woman Science Photographer of the Year award

From bioluminescent marine algae to soap bubbles, these stunning images are some of the winners and finalists for the inaugural RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition

Regulars

Video

Inside Falkor (too), the ship searching for life at hydrothermal vents

Video

Life

High-tech research ship ready to seek new life at hydrothermal vents

News

Life

Young snapping shrimp’s tiny claws beat underwater acceleration record

News

Life

Thor the walrus spotted on Iceland coast following visit to the UK

News