“In about a percent of its entire history, astronomy has quadrupled its ontology. A new field, called multimessenger astronomy, has begun characterizing single cosmic events through multiple signal types. Already, light has been paired with gravitational waves and with neutrinos. It’s a reminder that science advances, not just by seeing better, but by inventing whole new categories of seeing."

- Michael Segal

http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/the-unseen

Meet Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, an oceanographer pioneering the science of the “plastisphere”. She investigates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the unseen worlds of plastic-eating bacteria that live there.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/on-waste-plastics-at-sea-maria-luiza-pedrotti-finds-unique-microbial-multitudes-20180913/