The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier's surface, which can accelerate its melting. Glaciers are massive bodies of white ...

A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to ...

The cactus-shaped algae are unique in many respects, Lin says. They grow as single cells with many nuclei and are relatively enormous compared to other single-celled organisms, reaching sizes of ...

According to the above data from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the bloom could be of Karenia mikimotoi — which is a type ...

A new study overcomes this limitation by combining the photosynthetic finesse of a single-celled algae with the production capabilities of the bacteria E. coli. The researchers report their ...

or perhaps blue-green algae. No one knows whether these early life-forms developed in several different regions or in one part of the ocean—or from a single cell, as you suggest. When it comes ...

Algae could reduce nutrient pollution in wastewater at the ... 35 “We want to have something that works at the single cell level, something that detects the amount of the molecule that is produced … ...

And where plants are always made of many cells, algae may be made from one single cell, or millions. Plants contain a molecule called chlorophyll that works with energy from the sun, water, and carbon ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum ... up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it eats to survive. New research reveals that stentors ...

Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.