High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

Curiosity about ocean pressure led to an experiment that quickly became intense. As depth increases, the force of the sea becomes impossible to ignore. It’s a powerful reminder of how extreme ...