The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean ...

The Arctic is changing – and not just in the ways you might think. Once covered in thick, bright sea ice, the region is now ...

A team of ocean optics experts, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, has evaluated the accuracy of above-water optical sensors, ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

The deep blue sea may not have always been so blue. A new study suggests that the Earth’s oceans may have changed color over ...

Microplastics aren’t floating on only the surface of the ocean. A global survey of the tiny particles reveals they are prevalent throughout the water column ... theory of light aims to ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Scientists have captured the first confirmed video of a colossal squid – a 30-centimetre juvenile – in its natural habitat.

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

A New Zeland-based designer Henry Glogau has developed Solar Desalination Skylight, a device that uses seawater to create ...