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Without Prochlorococcus in the open ocean sequestering huge amounts of carbon, “we would be looking at a very different planet,” Rogier Braakman says. New research suggests the microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles.

Plavnik will conduct research in Germany at the Universität Hamburg as a Humboldt Fellow.

An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding the strong nuclear force, which some physicists call the glue that holds the universe together.

Neuroscientists often use neural networks to model the kind of tasks the brain performs, in hopes that the models could suggest new hypotheses regarding how the brain itself performs those tasks. But a group of MIT researchers urges that more caution should be taken when interpreting these models.

After 13 years as director of the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Ed Boyle, professor of ocean geochemistry in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary

The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering has announced new leadership. Ed Boyle is stepping down as director, and Mick Follows will be taking over the position.

Women climate scientists are breaking barriers in their fields while helping to save the planet with important climate change solutions and research.

Cracking the Neural Code in Humans on Simons Foundation

Researchers found the coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering the timing of nutrient uptake.

UH research vessel Kilo Moana. (Photo credit: Tara Clemente/ UH) The coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering