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

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

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 below. Scientists have long known that this “marine ...

No two snowflakes may be the same, but models that fail to take these variations into consideration often fall short when ...

A new study has uncovered alarming evidence that plastic pollution is reaching even deeper into the ocean than we previously thought. Researchers found that "marine snow" — the steady fall of organic ...

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

With a new kind of microscope, researchers got a different view of how marine snow falls to the seafloor. Marine snow sinking in an infinite water column created by an artificial “gravity machine.” ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation. It was assumed that the high levels of oxygen ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.