seafloor

Microbes Dine (Very Slowly) on Coal and Shale, 2.5 km Beneath the Seafloor

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another, are the main points of entry for…

How deep into Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd (DCO…

During Expedition 337 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the crew of the scientific…

A new paper in Environmental Microbiology Reports [1] suggests that deep microbes are doing just…

A new special issue of Frontiers in Microbiology entitled Recent Advances in Geomicrobiology of the…

Serpentinization reactions at shallow depths are the subject of intense research interest due to…

These chimneys, and the hydrothermal vent fluids that pour out of them, offer a window into the…

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Embargoed until 08:30 EDT, 12:30 GMT, 13:30 UK Summer Time, Thursday 8 September 2016 Mission…

In this sediment lives a largely unknown ecosystem of microbes, the marine deep biosphere, which…