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 ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

Researchers have consistently tracked a recurring bloom near Antarctica that reliably appears each summer, yet varies ...

New research reveals how ocean viruses burst algae cells, fueling a subsurface oxygen band through rapid microbial recycling.

As increased industrial activity puts fragile deep-sea ecosystems at risk, one artist is raising awareness about imperiled ...

Time-lapse of algae growing in water. We poured pond water in a glass container and added a small piece of algae into it. The ...

A new method has been developed that will help researchers track toxic algae species in the Gulf of Maine before they turn ...

In a new study, we and an international team scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognizable under the electron microscope, they are ...

Floodplains are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet and represent major centres of biological diversity (Junk 1996). The extreme diversity of habitats in such environments provide high ...

Microscopic image of fluid inclusions in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals, which preserve ancient air and brine. (Justin Park/RPI) More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is ...