For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new research from the University of Southern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A submersible, which travels to the seafloor to collect rock and microbe samples, is lifted by the arm of a research vessel. James ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new research from the University of Southern ...

Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using hydrogenases to predict what ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an existence on the faintest trickle of food from above. New work from ...

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike conventional plastics that persist for decades. In real-world underwater ...

The subseafloor constitutes one of the largest and most understudied ecosystems on Earth. While it is known that life survives deep in the fluids, rocks, and sediments that make up the seafloor, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in ...

James F. Holden receives funding from NASA. People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe ...