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 ...

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Kevin Swope of Framingham has recently released a book of photographs taken in 1938 by his grandfather, Gerard Swope Jr.

In the mid-1990s, scientists made a discovery that shook up the understanding of life on Earth: vast reservoirs of microbes can be found beneath the planet’s surface, often buried kilometers deep in ...

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 ...

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

The Woods Hole Community Association is buying the longtime home of CAI, an NPR news station that serves Cape Cod and the Islands and is owned by public media organization GBH. “More than 350 ...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of all aspects of marine science and engineering and to the ...

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 ...

On a recent wintry day in Woods Hole, construction of the new ferry service terminal for the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority was underway. A huge hole gaped open in ...