It’s easy to forget that beneath the sunlit waves, just past where the ocean’s blue turns to jet-black, lies a world teeming ...

The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water. But it degrades within a year on the ocean floor.

In a village of southwestern India, a child peered into a water tank and noticed a “translucent” creature with visible bones. She didn’t know it at the time, but she’d just discovered a new species.