This summer has featured an amazing run of mathematical discoveries. In May, a prediction first made by Paul Erdős in 1946 about “unit distances” between points in a plane, was disproved. In July, the...

Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

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Satellite observations reveal substantial decreases in coccolithophore blooms across the North Atlantic and Barents Sea.

HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.

In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…

The ocean is a key carbon sink, yet fragmented views exaggerate ecosystem roles; marine life deserves protection beyond climate.

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Bilaterian guts share conserved embryonic patterning, but how does this relates to adult gut organization? This study uses transcriptomic analyses across five species to reveal conserved transcription...

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Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.

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Phosphorus availability is vital to ocean ecosystem functioning. Analyses of global seawater samples combined with laboratory experiments reveal the Alteromonas bacteria as a surprising regulator of t...

In 2024, eLife continued with its efforts to make peer review and publishing better for science and scientists.

Genomic sequencing of the thermotolerant coral species Oculina patagonica, single-cell transcriptomic analyses of symbiotic and non-symbiotic specimens and comparisons with obligate symbiotic coral sp...

Chlorophyll a is declining in low- to mid-latitude oceans, indicating reduced ocean productivity and fewer phytoplankton blooms.

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Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc

A non-cyanobacterial diazotroph previously isolated from a marine eukaryotic phytoplankton triggers formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules when inoculated onto a terrestrial legume.

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

Rodrigues and Queiroz et al. report the discovery of Naiavirus, the largest enveloped virus, isolated from a Brazil biome. With an oval capsid and flexible tail, its giant genome holds many novel gene...

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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.

Metatranscriptomic data from a mass-mortality event of adult Pacific Oysters, Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, the most widely cultivated shellfish g...

Infecting marine plankton, the pathogen may use its extreme appendage to enter host cells

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others