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 ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

Over the summer, two graduate students attended a highly sought-after training program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL ...

Ecologist Mirta Teichberg is tackling the same problem at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. She shows off rows of fish tanks filled with green shoots and labeled with names like “W ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

Little Friends We've heard of underground parties — but this is ridiculous. A recently released study authored by microbial ecologist Emil Ruff and his team of 20 fellow researchers has uncovered ...

a microbial ecologist at the famed Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, in a news release about the research. "Whereas the more energy present, the more diversity can be generated and ...

That view is now changing. Led by Emil Ruff of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Mass., new research has unearthed communities of underground microbes that are almost as—and ...

Emil Ruff, a microbiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, detected oxygen in freshwater samples in Alberta tens to hundreds of meters beneath the Canadian ...