A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.

Recent work by Aiyer and colleagues demonstrates that cable bacteria can conserve energy and grow under anoxic conditions by transferring electrons to electrodes via extracellular electron transfer. T...

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Reconstructing the origin of animals requires a broad sampling of their closest unicellular relatives, and a robust understanding of the phylogenetic relationsh

Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...

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Interview with Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.

A trove of bones, teeth, and more than 1,300 stone tools unearthed at Bianfu Cave offers a detailed look at how these extinct, elusive ancient humans hunted and survived.

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

This week, MBARI welcomed experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines to discuss the latest research on ctenophores, also known as comb jellies. The Ctenopalooza Ctwo workshop helped foster ne...

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

Joan and Pawel show us a timelapse video of reverse development of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, and tell the story behind it.

A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...