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Expeditions in the Southern Ocean confirm 30 new species, including a carnivorous sponge found at 3,601 meters and extreme ...

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Researchers discovered that while soil determines which bacterial species inhabit the root system, the host plant ultimately ...

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Stromatolites, formed by microbial mats, hold evidence of a symbiotic relationship that possibly kickstarted complex life ...

We've been searching for life on Mars for a long time, but so far we've come up empty. The fundamental problem is a Catch-22 ...

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; ∼30 to 150 meters) are major but poorly understood benthic habitats. We used Autonomous ...