The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. Despite residing in an ...

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...

Freshwater may soon flow from the deep sea to drought-stricken coastal cities. Companies are exploring how the intense ...

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways Christian Elliott A variety of marine creatures and unique features can be found in the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...