Specifically, scientists have worked with “exosomes” — tiny biological mail trucks that stem cells dispatch to tell neighbors ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the ...

Because of climate change, harmful algal blooms are increasing in frequency and intensity. New science helps demystify the frequent harmful algal blooms in the Pacific off the coast of Chile by ...

New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region.

SLURPING OYSTERS from their shells may be a rare indulgence for humans, but these bivalve molluscs and their relatives, such as clams and mussels, slurp for a living. Most are filter feeders, ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

At first glance, tiny flatworms called acoels seem pretty simple. Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract. Study co-author Bo Wang and his ...

The "chariot" being pulled by algae. (Shoji Takeuchi Research Group at University of Tokyo via SWNS) By Dean Murray via SWNS Scientists have made the world's smallest chariot - pulled by microscopic ...

The algae, which also can resemble spilled paint, globs or surface streaks, can be described by the highly unscientific yet apt description of what these citizen scientists are looking for is yucky.