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By Vijay Kumar Malesu From high-quality protein to omega-3s and antioxidants, algae emerge as a promising but carefully ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that when iron is scarce, phytoplankton waste energy and photosynthesis falters.

Native mass spectrometry that targets the blue component of blue-green algae has been found to be more sensitive to potentially toxic blooms than current techniques. Researchers at the University of ...

From dog sleds to horse-drawn carts, animals have been pulling vehicles for thousands of years. Now, scientists at the University of Tokyo have made what might be the smallest version ever, designing ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...

Under the microscope, one water-filled petri dish was teeming with round, reddish, immobile blobs — what vampyrellids look like after feeding. But nearby algae lacked telltale feeding holes.