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A Reversal of Fortune: The Arctic is Getting Better at Storing Carbon, as its Shrubbery Expands

October 21, 2024

People holding a big check made out to MBL for 200,000 dollars.

MBL Awarded State Funding to Expand Educational Opportunities for Massachusetts Public School Students

September 25, 2024

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Beyond Needles: Introducing a New, Nature-Based Approach for Delivering Cargo into Egg Cells

September 10, 2024

Cellular elongation at the tips of the filamentous bacteria Corynebacterium matruchotii. Credit: Chimileski et al (2024).

Open Wide: Human Mouth Bacteria Reproduce through Rare Form of Cell Division

September 3, 2024

Bdelloid rotifers on a gray background. These rotifers are about a hair's breadth in size. They lay large oval eggs that will hatch into genetic copies of their mother, without needing sex or fertilisation.

Small Animals Acquire Genes from Bacteria that Can Produce Antibiotics

July 18, 2024

Custom-made underwater cameras allowed divers to see the three-dimensional movement of salp colonies. Credit: Sean Colin

Jet-Propelled, Snake-like Salp Colonies Trace Huge Helices in the Ocean

May 17, 2024

Mara Freilich, left, collecting water that was used to sample different depths of the ocean beneath the research vessel, SOCIB, when Freilich was a graduate student at WHOI/MIT. Credit: Amala Mahadevan

Ocean Currents Act as 'Expressway' to the Depths for Tiny Organisms, Team Discovers

May 3, 2024

Nipam Patel with Painted Lady butterflies

MBL Director Nipam Patel Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 2, 2024

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Will Climate Warming Trigger Carbon Release from Tundra? Massive Study Provides Long-Awaited Answers

April 17, 2024

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