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Metabolic disrupters, phages, and other approaches are going to be needed to treat the broadest possible range of patients infected by bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple drugs.

Cable bacteria can live in stirred-up sediments by associating with structures built by Chaetopterus variopedatus.

For centuries, painters and poets have looked to the ocean for insight. Researchers, too, have found their muse in the Earth’s salty realm.

MRI scans from more than 800 incarcerated men pinpoint distinct structural features of people who have committed homicide, compared with those who carried out other crimes.

A love of music and science led the marine biologist to discover that whales sing songs, a discovery that he’s since used to convince the world the animals are worth saving.

To help create better conservation and management plans, researchers are measuring how marine organisms move between habitats and populations.

Most know Rachel Carson for her work on the dangers of chemical pollutants, but the writer’s earlier prose took readers on a tour of a mysterious underwater world.

Will the study of interactions between living things ever mirror the fundamental nature of physics and mathematics?

Interspecies adoptions are rare, but it’s not the first time this population of dolphins in French Polynesia has attempted it.

Understanding the dinoflagellates that regularly wreak havoc on marine and nearshore ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico could help researchers mitigate the damage they cause.

Reef mantas in Indonesia exhibit social preferences and form distinct social groups.

The Yale biologist says that organisms’ behavior, physiology, and morphology engage in a constant “evolutionary dance.”