My God, It's Full of Bugs!
Biologists say they now know how their astronomer counterparts felt the first time they viewed space through the Hubble telescope and saw stars they never knew existed.
Scientists have discovered that the number of different types of microorganisms in the ocean, like those seen in this sample, far exceeds earlier expectations. Some may reveal how life evolved in the ocean.
A new DNA sequencing technique used by researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole led to the discovery of millions more microorganisms than scientists knew existed in the ocean. It's a discovery that surprised even the scientists who developed the technique.
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Every time we 'look' with a different new tool, paradigms get overturned.