The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Usable nitrogen like this is pretty scarce. ZEHR: That's why we add it as fertilizer in agriculture. Same is true in the oceans. It's in short supply over wide regions of the ocean. DANIEL ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

As the planet grapples with the growing threat of climate change, an emerging industry is looking to the oceans for solutions ...

President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers that will ...

"It's one of the Holy Grails of biotechnology," says Jon Zehr, a now-retired microbial ecologist from UC Santa Cruz — the ability to engineer plants that ... of DNA in the ocean.

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...