A hormone that governs sleep and jet lag in humans may also drive the mass migration of plankton in the ocean, scientists have found. The molecule in question, melatonin, is essential to maintain our ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...

Melissa DuBose casts a net out into the sea on a crisp winter morning, from a wooden pier near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. “I come out here every week,” she says. She reels in her net to ...

Climate change will unquestionably influence global ocean plankton because it directly impacts both the availability of growth-limiting resources and the ecological processes governing biomass ...

SpongeBob SquarePants antagonist Plankton is finally claiming the spotlight with his own Netflix movie, which will debut in 2025. Netflix dropped a first-look image at Plankton: The Movie on X/Twitter ...

JACKSONVILLE, FLA – Every second breath you take comes from the ocean. The oxygen you inhale is largely the work of phytoplankton—tiny plant-like organisms floating at the surface of the sea. Through ...

Plankton from SpongeBob Squarepants has been revealed as Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2's newest fighter. Plankton joins the likes of Squidward Tentacles and Jimmy Neutron as new fighters alongside a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. – With their safety depth eroded by injuries, including to Omar Brown on Saturday, the Green Bay Packers have signed Jaylin Simpson, a source told Packers On SI on Monday. In a ...

The Critical Depth Hypothesis formalized by Sverdrup in 1953 posits that vernal phytoplankton blooms occur when surface mixing shoals to a depth shallower than a critical depth horizon defining the ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. – With their safety depth eroded by injuries, including to Omar Brown on Saturday, the Green Bay Packers have signed Jaylin Simpson, a source told Packers On SI on Monday. Simpson, who ...