In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms ...

Bacteria riding on sinking ocean particles can erode the mineral ballast that helps those particles descend, slowing the ...

Bacteria hitchhiking on marine snow can dissolve its calcium carbonate ballast, slowing the particles’ descent.

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

Snowflake size affects how much snow stays on roofs, helping explain why some storms create heavier and more dangerous snow ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new research from the University of Southern ...

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world ...