The undersea mountains where sharks rule

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Scientists Have Discovered an Organism That Breaks Biology’s Golden Rule

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Scientists find a startling discovery in a national park's hot waters

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new ...
Nature

Synthetic biology articles from across Nature Portfolio

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Triacetic acid lactone ...
Afloat

Deep-Sea Mining Can Cause 32 Per Cent Reduction in Marine Species - New Study

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content. If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be ...